the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Moore, Donovan
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 PAY 2020
- Thesaurus
- astronomie, wetenschappelijke beroepen, pioniers, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. She was a woman of many firsts: the first to receive a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College, the first promoted to full professor at Harvard, the first to head a department there. And, in what has been called “the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy,” she was the first to describe what stars are made of.