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: March 29, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780521483902
Subjects: Astronomy, Space & Time; Biography: general; Women; Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne,; Biography; Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Pay; Biography/Autobiography; History; Scientists - General; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Biography & Autobiography-Women; Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne, --1900-; Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne,--1900-; Science-History; Technology / General; United States; 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.
Description: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin became acclaimed in her lifetime as the greatest woman astronomer of all time. Her own story of her professional life, work and scientific achievements is augmented by the personal recollections of her daughter, Katherine Haramundanis, as well as a scientific appreciation by Jesse Greenstein, a historical essay by Peggy Kidwell, and in this new edition, an introduction by Virginia Trimble.

Payne-Gaposchkin's overwhelming love for astronomy was her personal guiding light, and her attitude and approach have lessons for all. She received many prestigious awards for her outstanding contributions to science and in 1956 became the first woman to be advanced to the rank of Professor at Harvard University, as well as being the first woman head of department. This book will interest both astronomers and those studying the advancement of the position and status of women in society.