Quote of the day
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Born: May 10, 1900
Died: December 7, 1979 (aged 79)
Bio: Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin was a British American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium.
Known for:
- The Stars of High Luminosity
- Stars in the Making (1952)
- Stars and Clusters (1979)