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Without question, the situation has improved since Harvard's classes first went co-ed around the time of World War II. Harvard's first female professor Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, for instance, did not receive tenure until...
...Shapley led his colleagues in criticizing the company for printing a "hoax," going so far as to threaten to terminate Harvard's important relationship with the MacMillan textbook division if it did not stop publication. Shapley also encouraged a member of his Harvard staff, Dr. Cecilia Paye-Gaposchkin, to compose a slanderous review of Worlds in Collision before she had ever read the book...
...response to these accusations--as well as Velikovsky's assertions that recent space missions and experiments had confirmed his predictions--Sagan came up with the idea of the AAAS forum. While Gaposchkin was still labeling Velikovsky's books as nonsense (at the same time as she admitted not having read any of them), Sagan and the others had recognized that by ignoring and slandering Velikovsky, scientists had made him into a public martyr. Direct confrontation was called...
Layzer's view is wide, inclusive; he pulls the pieces of the Observatory together as he talks. "I teach a Gen Ed course," he smiles. "Astronomy is a science where you can see the past feeding into the present in one generation," he continues. "Sergei Gaposchkin--he's quite a character--was studying binary stars 40 years ago. Now they think binary stars might be connected to x-ray sources. And that's part of a whole computer project...
SEVERAL DECADES BACK IN TIME, at the other end of the binary-star research chain, Sergei Gaposchkin preserves the older world of Astronomy in his 6' by 8' cubicle under the Great Refractor a 15-inch telescope installed...