Word: gaposchkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to her current work as department chairman, Mrs. Gaposchkin is completing a book on novae, A nova is an explosive variety of variable star, which can best be described by a telegram that is a classic in astronomical circles: "Star Swells Up and Bursts...
...several books, among them Variable Stars published in 1938, Mrs. Gaposchkin collaborated with her husband, Sergei I. Gaposchkin, Astronomer in the College Observatory. Her husband, whose field is eclipsing stars, is a native of Russia, raised and educated in Germany. "We met at a conference in Germany," Mrs. Gaposchkin said, "and it was love at first sight." They were married here...
Since last August, Mr. Gaposchkin has been photographing the southern stars at the Australian Common-wealth Observatory, where former Harvard professor Bart J. Bok will soon assume directorship. Gaposchkin will resume his activities at Harvard next fall. Assisting him in Australia is his 16-year-old son, already an avid mathematician and astronomer. The Gaposchkins have two other children, a son studying electrical engineering as Tufts and a daughter majoring in Slavic languages at Swarthmore...
Cooking is Mrs. Gaposchkin's favorite homemaking task. She particularly likes to experiment with new recipes, declaring the pastime to be "just another form of reasearch." Mrs. Gaposchkin is also proficient at embroidering, knitting, and crocheting...
...girl, Mrs. Gaposchkin studied the violin seriously, and on occasions has played and conducted for the small orchestra at the Observatory. "The only career anyone ever urged me to take up was conducting," she admits...