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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

1900 to 1979 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin across 3 places, from 1923 to 1933. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; –) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was documented, and when

1923year
Harvard Universityattested “A fellowship established to encourage women to study at the Harvard Observatory enabled Payne to move to the United States to study at Harvard College in 1923.” source: Wikipedia: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1923year
United Statesattested “A fellowship established to encourage women to study at the Harvard Observatory enabled Payne to move to the United States to study at Harvard College in 1923.” source: Wikipedia: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1933year
Germanyattested “On a tour through Europe in 1933, Payne met Russian-born astrophysicist in Germany.” source: Wikipedia: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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Places Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin is documented in

Germany1 presence · 1933Harvard University1 presence · 1923United States1 presence · 1923

Other places tied to Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin in the record

In each of these, a source puts Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1925year
Radcliffe Collegementioned “In 1925, Payne became the first person to earn a doctoral degree (PhD) in astronomy from Radcliffe College of Harvard University.” source: Wikipedia: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1925year
Harvardmentioned “After earning her doctorate in 1925, Payne remained at Harvard for the entirety of her academic career.” source: Wikipedia: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
March 1934month
United Statesmentioned “She helped him obtain a visa to the United States, where they married in March 1934.” source: Wikipedia: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1945year
Harvard Universitymentioned “Nonetheless, the courses she taught were not recorded as available in the Harvard University catalogue until 1945.” source: Wikipedia: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1954 to 1956period
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciencesmentioned “When Donald Menzel became director of the Harvard College Observatory in 1954, he tried to improve her appointment, and in 1956 she became the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within the faculty at Harvard's Faculty of A…” source: Wikipedia: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Documented at the same place, the same year

Richard E. ByrdBoston · 1923William Henry PickeringBoston · 1923Wassily KandinskyUnited States · 1923Rudolph ValentinoUnited States · 1923Akseli Gallen-KallelaUnited States · 1923Eliel SaarinenUnited States · 1923Richard NeutraUnited States · 1923Albert EinsteinGermany · 1933Thomas MannGermany · 1933Edmund HusserlGermany · 1933Wernher von BraunGermany · 1933Emil CioranGermany · 1933

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