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Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979)
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Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10, 1900 - December 7, 1979) was a British-American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium.
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