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Author:
Moore, Donovan, author.
Title:
What stars are made of : the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin / Donovan Moore ; foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Publisher:
Harvard University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia,--1900-1979.
Astronomers--United States--Biography.
Women astronomers--United States--Biography.
Biographies.
Contents:
Part I. Beginning: Wendover and London (1900-1919) -- Part II. Preparing: Cambridge (1919-1923) -- Part III. Discovery: Harvard (1923-1979)
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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0674237374
9780674237377
LCCN:
2019031057
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

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