Book ID: CBB000773562

The Starry Universe: The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Centenary (2001)

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Philip, A. G. Davis (Editor)
Koopmann, Rebecca A. (Editor)


L. Davis Press


Publication Date: 2001
Edition Details: Proceedings of a symposium held at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 26-27, 2000
Physical Details: xv + 185 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review DeVorkin, David H. (2003) Review of "The Starry Universe: The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Centenary". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 244). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Smith, Robert William
Kragh, Helge S.
Lindsay Smith Zrull
Johnson, John, Jr
Burnell, Jocelyn Bell
Collins, Paul
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
American Scientist
American Scholar
Publishers
Harvard University Press
Portland State University
W. W. Norton & Co.
Viking
Springer
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Astrophysics
Universe
Women in science
Telescopes
People
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia
Cannon, Annie Jump
Zwicky, Fritz
Hubble, Edwin Powell
Hale, George Ellery
Wild, John Paul
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Early modern
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England
Oregon (U.S.)
Australia
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Africa
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Harvard University
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