Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin vs Louis de Broglie
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Compare the life timelines of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979) and Louis de Broglie (1892–1987) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 79 years, from 1900 to 1979.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979)
- — Born in Wendover, England Verified
- — Studied at Newnham College, Cambridge Verified
- — Moved to the United States to study at Harvard Verified
- — Completed doctoral thesis on stellar atmospheres Verified
- — Married Sergei Gaposchkin Verified
- — Became chair of the Harvard Department of Astronomy Verified
- — Became the first woman promoted to full professor at Harvard Verified
- — Awarded the Henry Norris Russell Prize Verified
- — Died in Cambridge, Massachusetts Verified
Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
- — Born in Dieppe, France Verified
- — Earned degree in history at the Sorbonne Verified
- — Earned degree in science Verified
- — Served in French army radio section during World War I Verified
- — Doctoral thesis proposing wave nature of matter Verified
- — Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics Verified
- — Appointed professor at the Henri Poincare Institute Verified
- — Became permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences Verified
- — Elected to the Academie francaise Verified
- — Died in Louveciennes, France Verified