1900 - 1979
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin American Scientist
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| First Name |
Cecilia
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| Last Name |
Payne-Gaposchkin
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| Birthday |
10th May, 1900
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| Birthplace |
Wendover, Buckinghamshire
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| Died |
7th December, 1979
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| Place of Death |
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (née Payne; May 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected because it contradicted the scientific wisdom of the time, which held that there were no significant elemental differences between the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved she was correct.
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