Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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)