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Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The making of an astrophysicist, 1983.
Peggy Kidwell considers three questions in this biographical essay: how Payne-Gaposchkin's education prepared her for a career in science; why she left England for the Harvard College Observatory; and what she did after she arrived there. In answering these questions, Kidwell describes Payne-Gaposchkin's early education; her scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge University, and studies in botany, chemistry and physics there; her perceived rebuff as a student by Ernest Rutherford and her subsequent interest in astronomy and astrophysics, sparked by a lecture by Arthur S. Eddington; her decision to leave England because of the lack of professional opportunities and the greater demand in the U.S.A.; her work with Harlow Shapley; research in stellar spectra and her Ph.D. thesis in stellar atmospheres. The essay includes four pages of end notes.
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944 -- Influence.
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979-
Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
Harvard College Observatory -- Graduate work of women.
Newnham College.
Astrophysics -- Biography.
Astrophysics -- Study and teaching.
Botany -- Study and teaching.
Chemistry -- Study and teaching.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Quality of work life.
Stars -- Atmospheres.
Stars -- Spectra.
Women in science.
Women physicists -- Job satisfaction.
Women physicists -- Job stress.
England -- Emigration and immigration.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Back matter. aat
Essays. aat ftamc
Notes. aat
Women physicists. lcsh
Astronomy -- Study and teaching.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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