Profile: Cecilia Payne and the Composition of the Stars
“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas.”
—Cecilia Payne
… Her fellow astronomers certainly came to appreciate her genius. In 1976, the American Astronomical Society awarded her the prestigious Henry Norris Russell Prize. In her acceptance lecture, she said, “The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something.” As much as any astronomer, she had fully experienced that most important of all scientific rewards….
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