A Collection Of Ten Offprints From The Library Of Henry Ernest Green 1 A Synopsis Of The Ionization

by Cecilia Payne Later Payne Gaposchkin

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Cambridge, Massachusetts; Paris: Harvard College Observatory; International Astronomical Union, 1924–1946; 1935. / First edition, in offprint form, of ten papers by Cecilia Payne later Payne-Gaposchkin , the astronomer who in 1925 demonstrated that stars are made primarily of hydrogen — Otto Struve's “most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy.” The earliest, her 1924 PNAS compilation of ionization potentials, is

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