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On this day in 1900 – May 9th – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born.

Cecilia Payne was the first woman to earn a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College of Harvard University. And in her PhD thesis, she was the first person to propose that stars stars were composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.


Mona Evans
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