Female astronomer Payne a trailblazer Hattiesburg American Cecilia Payne, born in Great Britain, won a scholarship to Cambridge University in 1919, where she attended a lecture by Arthur Eddington (while on a trip to study a total eclipse of the sun) that sparked her interest in astronomy. Realizing she couldn ... |
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