List of Famous people with last name Gaposchkin

Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin

Cecilia Helena Payne
First Name Cecilia
Last Name Gaposchkin
Born on May 10, 1900
Died on December 7, 1979 (aged 79)

Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin 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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