Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin At Telescope [Image Courtesy Britannica}
By discovering that stars are composed of Hydrogen and Helium and establishing that stars could be classified by their temperatures, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin broke barriers in stellar astronomy and women's rights. She paved the way for new discoveries in astronomy and for women in scientific fields by becoming the first female professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.
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