Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena [née Payne] (1900-79)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke3914.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3914. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, born in England, married Sergei Gaposchkin, first woman to become a full professor at Harvard. Worked on stellar atmospheres, and in her 1925 dissertation suggested correctly that the great range in strength, from star to star, of absorption lines in stellar spectra was due to differing amounts of ionization (differing temperatures), not differing chemical composition. She suggested t...

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