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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...
After receiving in 1925 the first Doctor of Philosophy degree ever granted at Radcliffe, Mrs. Gaposchkin remained at the Observatory to do research and teach. She became Phillips Astronomer in 1938. Last year she received an honorary A.M. degree from the University. On becoming a Harvard "alumnus," Mrs. Gasopschkin reportedly commented, "Maybe I should join the Harvard Club...
...almost three decades, Mrs. Gaposchkin has been an internationally-known authority in her particular field, variable stars. A variable star, she explains, is a star whose brightness changes, either because of its own pulsations or an eclipse with another star. Much of her research and writing has concerned the regularity of these variations, which are often, she states, "more accurate time-keepers than clocks...
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...