Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin studied at Cambridge but was denied a degree because it didn’t grant them to women until 1948. She pursued a Ph.D. in the United States, and in her thesis showed the sun is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. It has been called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin studied at Cambridge but was denied a degree because it didn't grant them to women until 1948. She pursued a Ph.D. in the United States, and in her thesis showed the sun is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. It has been called "the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.
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