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So you know how we know that the stars are made up mostly of Hydrogen and Helium? We know that because of a WOMAN named Cecilia Payne. Her doctoral thesis on the subject was rejected because it didn't follow common wisdom. Henry Norris Russell is often credited with the discovery - he is the one who rejected it and later replicated her results. She's also the first woman to be promoted to professor at Harvard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin#Astronomy #Astrophysics
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