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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

(Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979)

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; (1900-05-10)May 10, 1900 – (1979-12-07)December 7, 1979) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics. (From Wikipedia)

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Books by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin:

Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979: The Stars of High Luminosity (Harvard Observatory Monographs #3; New York and London: Pub. for the Observatory by the McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1930)
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- multiple formats at archive.org

Additional books by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin in the extended shelves:

Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979: On the distribution of intensity in stellar absorption lines, also by Harlow Shapley (Gutenberg ebook)
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979: Radio talks from the Harvard observatory; the universe of stars (The Observatory, 1926), also by Harlow Shapley and Harvard College Observatory (page images at HathiTrust)
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979: Stellar atmospheres: a contribution to the observational study of high temperature in the reversing layers of stars (The Observatory, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979: Stellar atmospheres : A contribution to the observational study of high temperature in the reversing layers of stars, ed. by Harlow Shapley (Gutenberg ebook)
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979: The universe of stars, based on Radio talks from the Harvard observatory. (The Observatory, 1929), also by Harlow Shapley and Harvard College Observatory (page images at HathiTrust)
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979: Variable stars in Milton field 54 ([The Observatory], 1946) (page images at HathiTrust)

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