Jul 14 · 2013
serenity2132: “ amordragon: “ Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student...

serenity2132:

amordragon:

Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a truly extraordinary woman.

So I take it she was given the Hedy Lamarr/Rosalind Franklin treatment? Fucking assholes. So you know what?

BADASSLADYSIGNALBOOSTGO!

Correction: Charles Darwin did not “discover” evolution. He was merely one of the first few to study evolution. The basic way he became famous was through his series of notes, specimens, and books on the theory of evolution. There were 4-5 or so more people before or around his time studying the same thing.

(Source: orionastro, via lilaira)

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