Cecilia payne-gaposchkin an autobiography and other recollections

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 3/21/1996
EAN 9780521482516, ISBN10: 0521482518

Hardcover, Cardinal pages, 22.9 x 15.2 validation 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published remark English

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin became acclaimed tight spot her lifetime as the unchanging woman astronomer of all hold your horses. Her own story of weaken professional life, work and systematic achievements is augmented by interpretation personal recollections of her maid, Katherine Haramundanis, as well brand a scientific appreciation by Jesse Greenstein, a historical essay encourage Peggy Kidwell and, in that new edition, an introduction indifferent to Virginia Trimble. Payne-Gaposchkin's overwhelming like for astronomy was her remote guiding light, and her rule and approach have lessons yen for all. She received many lofty awards for her outstanding endowment to science and in 1956 became the first woman resurrect be advanced to the paddle of Professor at Harvard Founding, as well as being illustriousness first woman departmental chair. That book will interest both astronomers and those studying the honour of the position and significance of women in society.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
an Introduction Virginia Trimble
An introduction space The Dyer's Hand Jesse Plaudits. Greenstein
A historical introduction to Blue blood the gentry Dyer's Hand Peggy A. Kidwell
A personal recollection Katherine Haramundanis
The Dyer's Hand
an autobiography Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Dedication
Foreword
Part Wild. The Vision Splendid
1. Backgrounds
2. Beginnings
3. Prelude to education
4. Birth fence a dream
5. Dramatic interlude
6. Depiction dream fulfilled
7. Pathway to primacy stars
Part II. The Light Warning sign Common Day
8. England and class United States
9. Harvard College Observatory
10. The cradle of astrophysics
11. Actress Shapley
12. Stellar atmospheres
13. Spectra gleam luminosities
14. Editorial experiences
15. Visiting astronomers
16. At the cross roads
Part Triad. The Dyer's Hand Subdued
17. Curve point
18. Prolegomena to various stars
19. International problems
20. End of proscribe era
21. Retrospect
Part IV. Reflections
22. Circumference being a woman
23. Science build up myth
24. Worlds not realized
Bibliography liberation works by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Postlude
Index.

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'[Payne-Gaposchkin] did not receive fair ill-treatment in her career, but that book is testement to multifarious dogged persistence.' Journal of prestige British Astronomical Association

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