STEAMpunks

12. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin


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Transcript link: http://bit.ly/2QiLtkV

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Learn about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a person with several "The First Woman to"s under her belt and the first person to discover that the sun has a WHOLE LOT of hydrogen!

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Further Reading:

  • Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics edited by Nina Byers and Gary Williams
  • Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 (Lives of Women in Science) edited by Pnina Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram
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    Huge thanks to the band The Crypts for the use of their song Marie Curie (which is licensed under CC BY 4.0) for our intro and outro. 

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