in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. SO HERE IS A SHORT POTTED HISTORY OF CECILIA PAYNE.Ĭecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.Ĭecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because at that time there's not much exposure for woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.Ĭecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. “Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque.
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