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My black and white and grey digital sketch of Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin. Above it, a citation from her thesis: 'The application of physics in the domain of astronomy constitutes a line of investigation that seems to possess almost unbounded possibilities'. Slightly in the background sketches of the energy levels in the hydrogen atom (orbital co-sketched) and a star with sun spots and loop/protuberances. Name and citation underlines in red, everything else is black and white.

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My black and white and grey digital sketch of Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin. Above it, a citation from her thesis: 'The application of physics in the domain of astronomy constitutes a line of investigation that seems to possess almost unbounded possibilities'. Slightly in the background sketches of the energy levels in the hydrogen atom (orbital co-sketched) and a star with sun spots and loop/protuberances. Name and citation underlines in red, everything else is black and white.
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Dr. Victoria Grinberg (vicgrinberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 22:34:18 JST Dr. Victoria Grinberg

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who revolutionized our understanding of what stars & the Universe are made of, was born #OTD in 1900.
In 1926, she wrote what is considered the "undoubtedly most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".
She continued in the same spirit - only to be denied a professorship (or even the a proper astronomer position). She finally became a professor at Harvard at 1956(!) & first woman to chair a department.
#VicisAstro #astronomy #WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #SciArt

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