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gptkbp:instanceOf
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astronomer
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gptkbp:almaMater
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gptkb:Radcliffe_College
gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
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gptkbp:awardReceived
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gptkb:Eddington_Medal
gptkb:Annie_Jump_Cannon_Award_in_Astronomy
gptkb:Henry_Norris_Russell_Prize
gptkb:Rittenhouse_Medal
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gptkbp:birthDate
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1900-05-10
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gptkbp:birthPlace
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gptkb:Wendover,_Buckinghamshire,_England
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gptkbp:children
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gptkb:Edward_Gaposchkin
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gptkbp:citizenship
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gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:deathDate
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1979-12-07
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gptkbp:deathPlace
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gptkb:Cambridge,_Massachusetts,_USA
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gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor
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gptkb:Harlow_Shapley
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gptkbp:employer
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gptkb:Harvard_University
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gptkbp:field
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gptkb:astronomy
astrophysics
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gptkbp:firstBook
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first woman to become a full professor at Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences
first person to earn a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College
first woman to head a department at Harvard University
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gptkbp:gender
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female
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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gptkbp:influenced
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understanding that hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:Arthur_Eddington
gptkb:Harlow_Shapley
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gptkbp:knownFor
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her thesis on the composition of stars
stellar atmospheres
stellar composition
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gptkbp:language
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English
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gptkbp:memberOf
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gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society
gptkb:Royal_Astronomical_Society
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:American
British
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gptkbp:notableStudent
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gptkb:Helen_Sawyer_Hogg
gptkb:Joseph_Ashbrook
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gptkbp:notableWork
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gptkb:Stars_and_Clusters_(1979)
gptkb:Stars_in_the_Making_(1952)
gptkb:Stellar_Atmospheres_(1925)
gptkb:The_Galactic_Novae_(1957)
gptkb:The_Stars_of_High_Luminosity_(1930)
gptkb:Variable_Stars_(1938)
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gptkbp:restingPlace
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gptkb:Mount_Auburn_Cemetery
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Sergei_Gaposchkin
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gptkbp:thesisTitle
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gptkb:Stellar_Atmospheres,_A_Contribution_to_the_Observational_Study_of_High_Temperature_in_the_Reversing_Layers_of_Stars
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:International_Astronomical_Union
gptkb:Astronomie
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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4
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