Links to articles from A Little Herstory and Snopes, two days after the birthday of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 – 1979). (GAZA and UKRAINE entries for today, so far, are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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The woman who discovered what the universe is made of. From A Little Herstory. When it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks just say that hydrogen is the most common atom in the universe. And nobody is mad that someone had to find out. Cecilia Payne was the one. She was the author of the greatest doctoral thesis in astronomy ever written. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for article from Snopes.