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The Lightest Element review " tribute to trailblazing astronomer expected to make the tea

by Emma John

Hampstead theatre, LondonCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin faced constant sexism and professional exclusion, but Stella Feehily's play shows a woman with an iron will to succeed Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who died in 1979, is one of the many female scientists whose name is less well known than it should be. Astronomy, the field she worked in, was so male-dominated she had to leave her native Britain and move to the US simply t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:24am on September 17, 2024