Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections Second Edition

<p>Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin is acclaimed as the greatest woman astronomer of all time. In this book, her own story of her professional life, work, and scientific achievements is augmented by the personal recollections of her daughter, Katherine Haramundanis. Other highlights include a scientific appreciation by Jesse Greenstein, a historical essay by Peggy Kidwell and, new to this edition, an introduction by Virginia Trimble. Payne-Gaposchkin's overwhelming love for astronomy was her personal guiding light, and her attitude and approach have lessons for all. She received many prestigious awards for her outstanding contributions to science. In 1956, she became the first woman Professor at Harvard University, as well as being the first woman departmental chair. This book will interest both astronomers and those studying the advancement of the position and status of women in society.</p>

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections

Biographies & Memoirs

Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia

Arts & Literature

Cambridge University Press

Stars and Clusters (Harvard Books on Astronomy, 9)

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

Harvard University Press

Ms Gaposchkin was one of giants of astronomy and astro physics in the early part of the twentieth century, and this book was her attempt to gather it all up, distill it down, and write something for intelligent laypeople. This book ranked as a classic on the day it came out. I read it first in the late 1950s

Stars in the Making (Harvard Books on Astronomy, 8)

Stars and Clusters

<p>Sects. 12, 13. 89 sequence and that subgiant and fainter stars in globular clusters have ultraviolet excesses. When dealing with stars whose physical properties are imperfectly under­ stood, such as in globular cluster stars, we cannot rely too heavily on the empiri­ cal calibration by the kinds of stars used to define Fig. 5, to determine their true, unreddened U-B, B-V curve. But if by a combination of arguments, principally the reddening in the region of the stars we do known about, we can assign a fairly probable unreddened U-B, B-V curve to a group of stars about which we know little, the argument may be turned around. In this case some information may be gained about the energy envelope of the stars by examining the differences between the normal two-color index curves for the unknown group of stars compared to the known. In general there seem to be two possible causes for different stars defining different normal sequences in the U-B, B-V plane. One, the relative energy distribution in the continuum in the U, B and V photometry bands are different. An example of this is the effect of the Balmer depression in supergiants. This, of course, requires deviation from black body radiation curves for one or both groups of stars. This cause seems to be the dominant effect for very blue, hot stars where the depression of the continuum by absorption lines is at a minimum.</p>

Astrophysik II: Sternaufbau / Astrophysics II: Stellar Structure (Handbuch der Physik Encyclopedia of Physics, 11 / 51)

Aller, Lawrence H.

Wrubel, Marshal H.

Arp, H. C.

Burbidge, G. R.

Burbidge, E. Margaret

Suess, Hans E.

Urey, Harold C.

Ledoux, P.

Walraven, Th.

Deutsch, Armin J.

Schatzman, E.

Zwicky, F.

Springer

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