Book Review--"The End of an Era" (Gaposchkin: Stars and Clusters)

Volume 8 number 2 (1979)

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Dorrit Hoffleit

Yale University

Abstract

"The end of an era!" That was how numerous astronomers reacted to the sad news of the death, on December 7, of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979).