Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars
Physics World
MARCH 8, 2022
Not enough people know that the cosmic importance of hydrogen was first grasped by a young PhD student, Cecilia Payne (Payne-Gaposchkin after she married), who in 1925 discovered hydrogen in the stars. Her father died when she was four, but her mother Emma saw that she had a gifted child who wanted to be a scientist. Young scientist.
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