What stars are made of : the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin / Donovan Moore ; foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
"Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of. But her name is hard to find alongside those of Hubble, Herschel, and other great astronomers. Donovan Moore tells the story of Payne's life of determination against all the obstacles...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of. But her name is hard to find alongside those of Hubble, Herschel, and other great astronomers. Donovan Moore tells the story of Payne's life of determination against all the obstacles a patriarchal society erected against her"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780674237377 0674237374 |