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100 1  $a Moore, Donovan, $e author.
245 10 $a What stars are made of : $b the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin / $c Donovan Moore ; foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
264  1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2020.
300    $a xix, 298 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm.
505 0  $a Part I. Beginning: Wendover and London (1900-1919) -- Part II. Preparing: Cambridge (1919-1923) -- Part III. Discovery: Harvard (1923-1979)
520    $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher.
600 10 $a Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, $d 1900-1979.
650  0 $a Astronomers $z United States $v Biography.
650  0 $a Women astronomers $z United States $v Biography.
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