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Observatory and prism splitting starlight into a spectrum with dark absorption lines

Did Cecilia Payne Discover What Stars Are Made Of?

Cecilia Payne’s 1925 thesis showed that stars differ mainly in temperature, not composition, and that hydrogen and helium vastly outnumber everything else. She then called that result “almost certainly not...

Did Cecilia Payne Discover What Stars Are Made Of?

Cecilia Payne’s 1925 thesis showed that stars differ mainly in temperature, not composition, and that hydrogen and helium vastly outnumber everything else. She then called that result “almost certainly not...

A dim museum hall of marble pedestals holding a rainbow star, a pulsar in a glass dome and a crystal, with one pedestal left empty

Who Really Discovered It? Credit, Myths and Mis...

Physics history is full of single names attached to shared work. Here are nine cases where the real story is more interesting, told from primary sources and without inventing heroes...

Who Really Discovered It? Credit, Myths and Mis...

Physics history is full of single names attached to shared work. Here are nine cases where the real story is more interesting, told from primary sources and without inventing heroes...