Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

Professor Cecilia Payne, ladies and gentlemen.

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This is a great example of how the education we receive focuses around the discoveries and perspectives of men.

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Woah. PUTTING ON A HAT AND THEN TIPPING IT TO YOU, COSMIC QUEEN CECILIA PAYNE!

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Unbelievable, really. I’ve read so many texts that ascertain this fact but not ONE mentioned that somebody had to discover this, and that someone was a woman.

Sure, an artist doesn’t care that when he/she paints or records Sun, writes about it, she/he is actually trying to describe a physical reaction of Hydrogen fusing into Helium. But it’s sure as hell that we wouldn’t be alive without it.

Kudos to those who remembered and now I won’t forget either.

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