Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Subtitle: An Autobiography and Other Recollections
Contributors: Katherine Haramundanis (Editor); Jesse Greenstein (Introduction); Virginia Trims (Introduction); Peggy Kidwell (Introduction)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780521482516
Subjects: Astronomy, Space & Time; Biography: general; United States; Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Pay; Astronomy (General); Women In Science; History; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Scientists - General; Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne; Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne,--1900-; Technology / General; Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne,; Literary; 1900-; Astronomers
First sentence: If the scheme of philosophy which we now rear on the scientific advances of Einstein, Bohr, Rutherford and others is doomed to fail in the next thirty years, it is not to be laid to their charge that we gone astray.