Background
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena was born on May 10, 1900 in Wendover, England. Came to the United States, 1923, naturalized, 1931. Daughter of Edward John and Emma Leonora Helena (Pertz) Payne.
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena was born on May 10, 1900 in Wendover, England. Came to the United States, 1923, naturalized, 1931. Daughter of Edward John and Emma Leonora Helena (Pertz) Payne.
AB, Newnham College, Cambridge, England, 1923. Doctor of Philosophy, Radcliffe College, 1925. Doctor of Science, Wilson College, 1942.
Doctor of Science, Cambridge University, 1950. Doctor of Science, Smith College, 1951. Doctor of Science, Western College for Women, 1953.
With Harvard Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1923. Phillips astronomer Harvard University, from 1938, professor astronomy, from 1956.
(Book by Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, American Philosophical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (president Radcliffe chapter 1945-1947).
Married Sergei Illarionowitsch Gaposchkin, March 6, 1934. Children: Edward Michael, Katherine Leonora, Peter John Arthur.