Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a truly extraordinary woman. Since her - TopicsExpress



          

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a truly extraordinary woman. Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque or obituaries that mention her greatest discovery. Everyone knows Charles Darwin discovered evolution and Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time, but when it comes to the composition of our universe, textbooks simply say the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. No one ever wonders how we know?
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 05:09:12 +0000

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