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The long battle to reach for the stars: the life and times of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

21 Nov 2022 Tushna Commissariat

Tushna Commissariat reviews What Stars Are Made Of: the Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin by Donovan Moore

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
The only woman in the group Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin photographed with the other speakers at the International Astrophysical Conference on Novae and White Dwarf Stars in Paris, France, 1939. (Courtesy: Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)
“I have reached a height that I should never, in my wildest dreams, have predicted 50 years ago. I

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