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"There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."
The answer to this fundamental question of astrophysics was discovered in 1925 by Cecilia Payne and explained in her Ph.D. thesis. Payne showed how to decode the complicated spectra of starlight in order to learn the relative amounts of the chemical elements in the stars. In 1960 the distinguished astronomer Otto Struve referred to this work as “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.” ...
Rest of text -> https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/cecilia-payne-profile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2PUStoc09A
3:35 min video
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