Cecilia Helena Payne

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Cecilia_Helena_Payne

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater	gptkb:Radcliffe_College gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:awardReceived	gptkb:Annie_Jump_Cannon_Award_in_Astronomy gptkb:Henry_Norris_Russell_Prize gptkb:Rittenhouse_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate	1900-05-10
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Wendover,_Buckinghamshire,_England
gptkbp:children	gptkb:Edward_Gaposchkin
gptkbp:citizenship	gptkb:United_Kingdom gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:deathDate	1979-12-07
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Cambridge,_Massachusetts,_USA
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor	gptkb:Harlow_Shapley
gptkbp:employer	gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:fieldOfWork	gptkb:astronomy astrophysics
gptkbp:fullName	gptkb:Cecilia_Helena_Payne
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Cecilia Helena Payne
gptkbp:knownFor	gptkb:Payne-Gaposchkin_thesis stellar atmospheres composition of stars
gptkbp:nationality	gptkb:American British
gptkbp:notableStudent	gptkb:Allan_Sandage gptkb:Charlotte_Moore_Sitterly gptkb:William_McCrea gptkb:Frank_K._Edmondson gptkb:John_S._Paraskevopoulos gptkb:William_H._W._McCrea gptkb:William_Liller gptkb:William_P._Bidelman gptkb:Olin_Eggen gptkb:Bart_Bok gptkb:Donald_Menzel gptkb:Helen_Sawyer_Hogg gptkb:Joseph_Ashbrook gptkb:William_Wilson_Morgan gptkb:Harold_Johnson gptkb:Dorrit_Hoffleit gptkb:Paul_W._Hodge
gptkbp:notableWork	gptkb:Stellar_Atmospheres_(PhD_thesis,_1925)
gptkbp:occupation	astronomer
gptkbp:spouse	gptkb:Sergei_Gaposchkin
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Cecilia_Payne
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6