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2 unusual facts about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin


Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell dissuaded Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin from concluding that the composition of the Sun is different from that of the Earth in her papers, as it contradicted the accepted wisdom at the time.

Wendover

The astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who first postulated that the universe was made up primarily of lighter elements such as hydrogen, was born in Wendover in 1900.


Payne-Gaposchkin

2039 Payne-Gaposchkin, an asteroid discovered in 1974, named after Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin


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