https://padlet.com/bren7160/16n88465j48s en-us 2018-04-13 14:25:36 UTC 2018-04-15 19:16:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png bren7160 https://padlet.com/bren7160/16n88465j48s/wish/251581962 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born  may 10th 1900. She was raised with 2 other children and had 2 uncles, a historian and a writer. ]]> 2018-04-13 14:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bren7160/16n88465j48s/wish/251581962 bren7160 https://padlet.com/bren7160/16n88465j48s/wish/251589404 She went to Newnham College as well as Cambridge University where she studied Botany, Chemistry and Physics. She then moved to England and started teaching. She Got a doctorate in Radcliff college (Which is now Harvard)  ]]> 2018-04-13 14:57:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bren7160/16n88465j48s/wish/251589404 bren7160 https://padlet.com/bren7160/16n88465j48s/wish/251590274 After getting her phd she started studying luminosity of the stars and the structure of the Milky Way. She wrote a book called Stars of High Luminosity in 1930. Her main focus was astronomy and she became a professor at Harvard in 1956 and was the first women to be a professor and then became the Chair of Astronomy at Harvard, Also being the first women to be the head of a department.]]> 2018-04-13 14:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bren7160/16n88465j48s/wish/251590274 bren7160 https://padlet.com/bren7160/16n88465j48s/wish/251602297 She became a American Citizen in 1931. She got married in 1934 and settled down in which is a short commute to Harvard Lexington Massachusetts and had 3 kids.]]> 2018-04-13 15:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bren7160/16n88465j48s/wish/251602297