The history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discoveries.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin overcame prodigious obstacles to become a woman of many firsts: the first to receive a PhD in astronomy from Radcliff.
It was not easy being a woman of ambition in early twentieth-century England, much less one who wished to be a scientist.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a tireless innovator who correctly theorized the substance of stars, was one of them.
The history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discoveries