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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

“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

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy

• https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics/focus-areas/solar-science

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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