Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin vs Pyotr Kapitsa
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Compare the life timelines of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979) and Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984) 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 the first woman promoted to full professor at Harvard Verified
- — Became chair of the Harvard Department of Astronomy Verified
- — Awarded the Henry Norris Russell Prize Verified
- — Died in Cambridge, Massachusetts Verified
Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984)
- — Born in Kronstadt, Russian Empire Verified
- — Moved to England to work at the Cavendish Laboratory Verified
- — Appointed director of the Mond Laboratory at Cambridge Verified
- — Detained in the Soviet Union Verified
- — Founded the Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow Verified
- — Discovered the superfluidity of liquid helium Verified
- — Dismissed from his institute after refusing atomic bomb work Verified
- — Reinstated as director of the Institute for Physical Problems Verified
- — Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics Verified
- — Died in Moscow, Soviet Union Verified