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...undergraduate advises describe Mrs. Gaposchkin as an extremely busy professor who is "hard to get to see; but when you do see her, she is very interested in you as an individual." In the tradition of chairman in the small Astronomy Department, she acts as personal advisor to the nineteen undergraduate concentrators Her crowded schedule, however, is basically on the graduate level...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Hitch Your Wagon | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

...prominence in her field brought Mrs. Gaposchkin the honor of membership in the British Royal Astronomical Society. In this country, Mrs. Gaposchkin, who was naturalized in 1931, is a member of the American Astronomical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Hitch Your Wagon | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

...career woman in a primarily-male field, Mrs. Gaposchkin dresses plainly and wears no make-up. Her professionalism is most evident in her ultra-efficiency, her lucid speech, and her chain-smoking. Even while she talks, she keeps a cigarette in the center of her mouth between her teeth, lighting each successive cigarette from the preceding...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Hitch Your Wagon | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Hitch Your Wagon | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Hitch Your Wagon | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

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