Global Museum on Nostr: Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has ...

Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, Charles Darwin discovered evolution & Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen #CeciliaPayne