Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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)