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<big>'''Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin'''</big>
''“The Most Brilliant Ph.D Thesis Ever Written in Astronomy”''
* https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/item/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
* https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cecilia-Payne-Gaposchkin
''I have reached a height that I should never, in my wildest dreams, have predicted 50 years ago. It has been a case of survival, not of the fittest,
but of the most doggedly persistent. I was not consciously aiming at the point I finally reached. I simply went on plodding, rewarded by the beauty of
the scenery, toward an unexpected goal.''

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

“The Most Brilliant Ph.D Thesis Ever Written in Astronomy”


I have reached a height that I should never, in my wildest dreams, have predicted 50 years ago. It has been a case of survival, not of the fittest,

but of the most doggedly persistent. I was not consciously aiming at the point I finally reached. I simply went on plodding, rewarded by the beauty of

the scenery, toward an unexpected goal.

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