Word: gaposchkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other planes, likewise loaded with scientists, students, and photographers, left Logan Airport around 6 a.m. The University group flew in a DC-6 provided by Northeast Airlines; Dean Bundy, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, head of the Department of Astronomy and Donald H. Menzel, Director of the University Observatory, headed the Harvard contingent in its expedition upward...
Commenting on her course, Nat. Sci. 9, Mrs. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, denied "the slightest need for a change in Nat. Sci. 9," even though she "doubted" that the course meets with the recommendations of the Committee. She asserted that "no matter what the Report says, when I give a course, I give it the way I want...
...tenth, aurorae were seen around the world, even in some latitudes where they had not appeared within memory. The display was so bright that it was seen in New York City, whose smoke and lights make it one of the world's worst observation points. Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin, Chairman of the Astronomy Department said next morning that it was the brightest aurora that she could recall...
...should also attract a host of auditors on opening day, even from among those who have long transcended the elementary stuff. Clambering up the Gropius-bleachers in Burr A gives one a chance to view both Sputnik-spotting Dr. Hynek, and cigarette-dangling Payne-Gaposchkin, Harvard's first woman professor, world authority on variable stars, and beloved eccentric of the first order...
...only other woman with an endowed chair at Harvard is Cora Du Bois, the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology. This professorship, however, is limited to women. Mrs. Payne Gaposchkin will be Phillips Professor of Astronomy, a professorship which honors Phillips as "the first major benefactor of astronomy at Harvard...