Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
10 May 1900 — 7 December 1979
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 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.
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