What stars are made of

the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

What stars are made of

the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Donovan Moore ; foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Book - 2020

"Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of. But her name is hard to find alongside those of Hubble, Herschel, and other great astronomers. Donovan Moore tells the story of Payne's life of determination against all the obstacles a patriarchal society erected against her"--

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主要作者: Moore, Donovan (Author)
格式: 圖書
語言:English
出版: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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