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In 1925, 24-year-old graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that the Sun and other stars were composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium—a result so contrary to accepted astronomy that senior astronomer Henry Norris Russell called it “clearly impossible,” leading her to write in her thesis that the enormous abundances she had derived were “almost certainly not real.” Four years later, Russell reached the same conclusion by another method and acknowledged that Payne had got there first.
Deep Field — spacedaily.com


In 1925, 24-year-old Radcliffe graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that stars consist overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium. Princeton astronomer Henry Norris Russell called the result “clearly impossible,” prompting her to declare in her thesis that her own extraordinary finding was “almost certainly not real.” Four years later, Russell confirmed that she had been right.
Deep Field — spacedaily.com

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