The Net Advance of Physics History and Philosophy: Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin

• Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin: Astronomer and Astrophysicist (two lives by Owen Gingrich and Heather Miller) [Notable American Unitarians]
• Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, by Rachel Padman, 2004 Newnham Biographies [University of Cambridge]
• Portrait of a Pioneer, 2002Harvard Magazine [Harvard University]
• The Starry Universe: The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Centenary [AAVSO]
• Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin 4000 Years of Women in Science [University of Alabama]
• Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin: Astronomer and Pioneer, by Herbert F. Vetter, 2003 Looking Back [UU World]
• Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics [UCLA]
• Wikipedia
• Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin: In Her Own Words, by John Beaver Women in Astronomy [Lake Afton Observatory]
• Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, by Jay Bitterman, 2003 Night Times [Lake County Astronomical Society, IL, USA]
• Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, by John H. Lienhard Engines of Our Ingenuity [University of Houston]
• The Lady Astronomer, by Kathy A. Miles and Charles F. Peters II, 2000 [Starryskies.com]
• The Shoulders of Giants, by Dara Horn, 1998/05/29 Science Essays on Science and Society [AAAS]
• Inventory of the Papers of Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin at the Harvard Library (links to needlepoint designed and done by Payne Gaposchkin for Scientific American in 1976) [Harvard University]
• Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, by Margareta Warnike and Michele Nichols, 1997 (good pictures but black text on dark green hard to read) [Carleton College]

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