Word: gaposchkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin became the first woman in the history of the University to attain the rank of full professor through regular faculty promotion. In September she assumed the duties of chairman of the Department of Astronomy...
...interest in astronomy, Mrs. Gaposchkin says, began when she was five or six years old, "probably just rebellion as no one in the family had the slightest interest in the subject...
Josephine Hull '99 is among the Cliffe alumna who will receive citations. Other recipients are: Cecilia P. Gaposchkin '25, Phillips astronomer at Harvard; Doris z Stone '30, associate in Anthropology at Tulane University; Cornelia J. Cannon '99, teacher and author; and Marian Sharkey Doyle '14, past vice president of the League of women Voters and a past member of the National Loyalty review Board...
...Martha M. Eliot '13, Director of the United States Children's Bureau, and ex-Director of the United Nations' World Health Organization; Miss Mabel W. Daniels '00, well-known composer; Mrs. Serge Gaposchkin '35, noted astronomer; Dr. Priscilla White '21, diabetes specialist and author of "Diabetes in Childhood and Adolescence"; Mrs. Henry G. Doyle '40, who has been active in combatting juvenile delinquency in Washington...
Star Whirlpools. Another great mystery of space is why the galaxies often look like spinning pinwheels. Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin of Harvard Observatory has no ready answer. She points out that a great many galaxies (including the earth's) are spirals, but she does not know how they got that way. It may have something to do with the turbulence and viscosity of the thin gases between the stars, or with the magnetic fields that are supposed to permeate space. Astronomers believe that the explanation of the mysterious spirals will tell them much about the history of the universe...