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Dr. Cecilia Payne – Gaposkin was astronomer and astrophysics. She was born in England on May 10 ,1900, in Wendover. She died December 7,1979, in Cambridge Masachussets.
Her education
Dr. Cecilia Payne-gaposikn first she when to Sant Paul's school for girls at the age 17. She then went to Newnham collage at the university of Cambridge on a scholarship in 1919. She began her Ph.D. study at Harvard observatory in 1923.
Her personal life
She had a husband and three children. She married in 1934 to Russian astronomer Sergei Gaposkin. She authored and coauthored nine books and 351 papers. She retired in 1966 in 1976 she was awarded the henry Horris Russel prize by the American astronomical society.
conclusion
Dr.cecli-payne Gaposkin was a good and hard-working person.
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