Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) was a pioneer in the field of astronomy and one of the most eminent female astronomers of the twentieth century. She was the first to apply the laws of atomic physics to the study of the temperature and density of...

1900-1979 English-American astronomer who analyzed the universe's composition. After Payne-Gaposchkin graduated from Cambridge University, she moved to the United States to study at the Harvard College Observatory. Earning a doctorate from...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10 1900 – December 7 1979) was an English-American astronomer who in 1925 was first to show that the Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen, contradicting accepted wisdom at the...

Champion figure skater Cecilia Colledge, the youngest ever Olympian at 11 years and 73 days, a record she earned in the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and still held at her death, was born into a world of privilege destroyed when she...

RECORDINGS SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE Cecilia Bartoli follows up her best-selling all-Vivaldi recital with a disc of rare arias by Gluck. Editor's Choice: Cecilia Bartoli "DREAMS & FABLES" Italian arias by Gluck. Akademie fir Alte Musik Berlin. Texts and translations. Decca...