Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin
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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Female
Full Name
Cecilia Helena Payne
Date of Birth
May 10th, 1900
Age
124
Birth Place
United Kingdom, England
Date of Death
December 7th, 1979
Died Aged
79
Star Sign
Taurus
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