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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ( May 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979 ) was an English-American astronomer who in 1925 was first to show that the Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen, contradicting accepted wisdom at the time.
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Cecilia and Payne-Gaposchkin
Astronomer Harlow Shapley, along with others such as Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, were highly critical of Macmillan's decision to publish the work.
* Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia ( 1952 ).
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin at work
::— Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ( accepting the Henry Norris Russell Prize from the American Astronomical Society )
* Rubin, Vera ( 2006 ), " Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin " in OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics, Nina Byers and Gary Williams, ed., Cambridge University Press ( ISBN 978-0-521-82197-1 | ISBN 0-521-82197-5 ).
* Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: an autobiography and other recollections ( 1984 ), edited by her daughter, Katherine Haramundanis.
Harvard College Observatory is historically important to astronomy, as many women including Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin performed pivotal stellar classification research.
His supervisor there was Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who was then working in the Harvard College Observatory later recollected:
here he met many noted scientists like Harlow Shapley, Donald Menzel, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
His pioneer work thirty years ago on temperature ionisations in sun and stars inspired the activities of British scientists who in turn inspired the work here at Harvard of Mrs. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Donald M. Menzel and Frank Hogg ; their work established modern astrophysics in Harvard.
His doctoral thesis was entitled A Photoelectric Study of Some RV Tauri and Yellow Semiregular Variables and was written under the supervision of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
Cecilia and May
Cecilia Beaux ( May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942 ) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.
Cecilia Gallerani gave birth to his child, a son named Cesare, on 3 May 1491, in the same year in which he married Beatrice d ' Este.
Cecilia Bolocco ( born Cecilia Carolina Bolocco Fonck on May 19, 1965 ) is a Chilean television entertainer and former Miss Universe 1987.
The Duke of Sussex married a second time on 2 May 1831 ( again in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act ) to Lady Cecilia Letitia Buggin ( 1793 – 1873 ), the eldest daughter of Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran and Elizabeth Underwood ; and the widow of Sir George Buggin.
The often quoted figure of 30, 000 disappeared in Argentina first appeared in the Montreal Gazette, in an interview with Cecilia Guevara, sister of the slain guerrilla commander Ernesto " Che " Guevara, who stated in an interview in May 1980 that, in Argentina alone, more 30, 000 people had disappeared and another 15, 000 had been imprisoned.
At age of 19, Simon was crowned as Miss Universe 1988 by outgoing titleholder Cecilia Bolocco on May 24, 1988 in Taipei, Taiwan.
He married Cecilia Henrietta Dolores Blount La Touche at St Jude's Church, South Kensington, on 18 May 1890.
Evelyn Cecilia d. May 17, 1904
On 7 May 2011, she will face the undefeated Norwegian boxer, Cecilia Brækhus, in Copenhagen.
Anna Cecilia Malmström ( born 15 May 1968 ) is a Swedish politician currently serving as European Commissioner for Home Affairs in the Barroso Commission.
Jenny Cecilia Berggren ( born 19 May 1972 ) is a Swedish singer and former lead singer in the Swedish pop band Ace of Base.
Lady ( Alexandra Mary Cecilia ) Caroline Paget ( 15 June 1913-22 May 1973 ) was the daughter of Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey and Lady Marjorie Manners, eldest daughter of the 8th Duke of Rutland.
Ben-Yosef was born Robert Eliot Reiss, the son of Joseph and Cecilia Reiss, in New York City on May 31, 1937.
Cecilia and 10
On September 10, 1985, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán and her friend, Ana Cecilia Villeda, arrived by car at the gates of a private university in San Salvador.
305 Cecilia, Louisiana $ 10, 931
Lord Hobhouse married, on 10 August 1848, Mary ( d 1905 ), daughter of Thomas Farrer, solicitor, and sister of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer, Sir William Farrer ( d 1911 ), and Cecilia Frances ( d 1910 ), wife of Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh.
* Scalisi, Cecilia, " Raúl Giménez, el maestro del bel canto ", La Nación ( November 10, 2003 ).
Cecilia and 1900
* Cecilia Beaux, Americans in Paris: 1860 – 1900, Americans in Paris, The Metropolitan Museum
In 1900, Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was born, youngest daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his countess, Cecilia.
Cecilia later married August 1, 1900 to Alfred Forrestier.
* Cecilia Anne Parke ( died 20 April 1845 ), married Sir Matthew Ridley, 4th Baronet, and was the mother of Sir Matthew Ridley, 5th Baronet ( who was created Viscount Ridley and Baron Wensleydale in 1900 ).
Cecilia and –
* 1956 – Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress
* 1960 – Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano
* Aimee Ernesta and Eliza Cecilia: Two Sisters, Two Choices, Tara Leigh Tappert, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 2000, pp. 249 – 291
* 1611 – Cecilia Renata of Austria ( d. 1644 )
* 1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino jurist ( d. 2006 )
* 1948 – Cecilia, Spanish singer-songwriter ( d. 1976 )
Their biggest hits – including " The Sound of Silence " ( 1964 ), " I Am a Rock " ( 1965 ), " Homeward Bound " ( 1965 ), " Scarborough Fair / Canticle " ( 1966 ), " A Hazy Shade of Winter " ( 1966 ), " Mrs. Robinson " ( 1968 ), " Bridge over Troubled Water " ( 1969 ), " The Boxer " ( 1969 ), and " Cecilia " ( 1969 ) – peaked at number one in several charts.
Also, the painting Saint Cecilia with an Angel ( 1618 ) by Domenichino ( 1581 – 1641 ) shows what may be a seven-string viol.
* July 12 – Cecilia Loftus, stage actress ( b. 1876 )
* June 4 – Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
* March 8 – Cecilia Yip, Hong Kong actress
* July 16 – Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland ( d. 1644 )
* November 16 – Cecilia of Sweden ( d. 1627 )
# Cecilia ( c. 1405 – 4 January 1449 ), married:
' It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda '; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best – chosen language.
* Cecilia Beaux – Sita and Sarita ( Jeune Fille au Chat )
* Premios ACE Award for Best Actress – Cinema ( Cecilia Roth, winner )
* " The English Works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester ( 1469 – 1535 ): Sermons and other Writings, 1520 – 1535 ," edited by Cecilia A. Hatt, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Cecilia is the birthplace of several Louisiana political figures: state Representative and House Speaker Robert Joseph " Bob " Angelle ( 1896 – 1979 ), former Secretary of State of Louisiana and Lieutenant Governor Paul J. Hardy ( born 1942 ), and former state Representative Jesse J. Guidry, who became the director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Mary Louise Cecilia " Texas " Guinan ( January 12, 1884 – November 5, 1933 ) was an American saloon keeper, actress, and entrepreneur.
# Cecilia ( 1540 – 1627 ), wife of Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern
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