It’s the start of Explorer Gals Month, and Katie brought us a mountain cookie, Amy reminds us that no one knows how to pee in public anymore, and Bonnie tells us about a gal who was so smart she was kicked out of school. Explore outer space with astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
Show Notes & Extras
- Gal Pals this month are Bonnie Fillenwarth, Katie Harris, Amy Dalton, and Leah Leach
- Bonnie used a public restroom
- Katie brought a mountain cookie
- “Nobody knows how to pee in public anymore!” Amy
- Tent Time!
- Amy’s fab library is the Johnson County Public Library
- Why Gal’s Guide has a compass for a logo
- Bonnie’s shirt (picture below)
- Bonnie’s 1 Cool Explorer Gal is Cecilia Payne
- Cecilia’s early life
- Father found dead
- Cecilia’s love of plants and science
- “Why wasn’t Jesus a woman?” asked Cecilia
- St. Mary’s School
- Bullied for being so smart
- Wanted to learn more things
- Expelled for basically learning too much
- Now to St. Paul’s
- “A girl of unusual promise,” said a nun at St. Mary’s about Cecilia
- “She’s very smart but she can’t stay here,” is how Bonnie puts it
- Cecilia’s music teacher was Gustav Hols,t who is the composer of “The Planets”
- Cecilia was 5′ 10″
- She won a scholarship to Newnham College (the female version of Cambridge)
- Wasn’t allowed to be alone with men in canoes
- Little Mermaid tangent
- Escaped to a lecture
- Microagressions
- Lady sciences
- “Tit” Degree
- Met Harlow Shapley who worked at Harvard
- 1923 She left for America
- Annie Jump Cannon was still at the Harvard Computers Lab
- Cecilia worked at Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s desk
- First woman to get a PHD in astronomy from Radcliffe
- Her research on hydrogen and helium in stars
- Under the radar teaching for a while
- At an astronomy conference, she met Sergei Gaposchkin
- They married and had 3 kids
- Kids came to work with them
- Sergei was kinda a pain in the ass
- Awards
- Cecilia died in 1979 of lung cancer
- Book Bonnie recommends is What Stars Are Made of by Donovan Moore (Bonnie’s review)
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