What is Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin?
'''Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin''' (May 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979) was a British-American [[astronomer]] and [[astrophysicist]]. ==Early life== Payne was born in Wendover, England. In 1919, she won a [[scholarship]] to [[Newnham College, Cambridge |Newnham College, Cambridge University]]. She studied botany, physics, and chemistry. She was not given a degree because women were not given degrees by Cambridge until 1948. In 1923 she moved to the [[United States]]. She became an American citizen in 1931. ==Personal life== In 1933, she met Russian-born astrophysicist Sergei I. Gaposchkin in [[Germany]]. She married him in 1934. She also discovered what elements made up stars. {{DEFAULTSORT:Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia}} [[Category:1900 births]] [[Category:1979 deaths]] [[Category:American astrophysicists]] [[Category:American astronomers]] [[Category:British astronomers]] [[Category:People from Buckinghamshire]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:British astrophysicists]] {{bio-stub}} {{authority control}}