Payne, Cecilia

H. S. Washington and others A. Einstein E. Rutherford J. J. Thompson E. Rutherford Cecilia H. Payne ... 

M. N. Saha, R. H. Fowler, E. A. Milne and Cecilia Payne (later Payne-Gaposchkin) interpret stellar spectral sequence as temperature sequence with (mostly) constant chemical composition crude abundances derived. 

Theory of a-radioactivity by quantum tunnelling (Gamow et al). Cecilia Payne (later Payne-Gaposchkin) applies Saha s equation to the stellar spectral sequence, finding vast predominance of hydrogen and helium, but does not believe her results. 

In this chapter I ve mentioned U.S. astronomers Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Annie J. Cannon. These are just two of numerous women who contributed immensely to the field of astronomy. Table 3.2 lists several more. 

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) First person to receive a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard. Spectral studies regarding chemical composition of stars. 

In addition to her pure research, she was a skilled writer. Late in life, she wrote a fascinating tale of her life as an astronomer called The Dyer s Hand. Here are some wonderful quotes from The Dyer s Hand reprinted in Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin An Autobiography and Other Recollections, edited by Katherine Haramundanis ... 

Deborah Crocke and Sethanne Howard, The University of Alabama Department of Physics and Astronomy, 4000 Years of Women in Science Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, http // www.astr.ua.edu/4000W S/GAPOSCHKIN.html... 

Katherine Haramundanis, ed., Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin An Autobiography and Other Recollections, 2nd ed. (New York Cambridge University Press, 1996). Also see, John Beaver, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin In Her Own Words, http //web.physics.twsu.edu/lapo/cpg.htm... 

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, http //www.star.ucl.ac.uk/-hwm/ burnell.htm. See also, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, The Journal of the British Astronomical Association 106(6), 22 (December 1996). (Jocelyn Bell Burnell is professor of physics at The Open University, and one of the first female professors of physics in the United Kingdom.)... 

In Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Introduction to Astronomy On J.J. Thomson (p. 341)... 

Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia. An Autobiography and Other Recollections. 

Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena. Introduction to Astronomy. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs. 1970. 

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND OTHER RECOLLECTIONS by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. Copyright 1984. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 

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