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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia
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1925
After just two years of study,
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
earned a PhD in astronomy at
Radcliffe College
. It was the first doctorate awarded for research at the
Harvard Observatory
.