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Also Known As Cecilia Helena Payne
Born May 10, 1900 • England
Died December 7, 1979 (aged 79) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study classification • star • stellar classification
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer
Pietro Angelo Secchi
Italian astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Otto Struve
American astronomer
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
Frank Schlesinger
American astronomer
William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell
American astronomer
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
Barnard's star
Edward Emerson Barnard
American astronomer
Henry Draper
American astronomer
Samuel Molyneux
British astronomer
Roger Angel
American astronomer
Ernest William Brown
British mathematician and astronomer
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Hertzsprung, c. 1930
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer

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