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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Famous Astronomer "One Winter my mother was pushing me in my stroller when we saw a meteorite in the sky. She taught me the right name for it by making a little rhyme: As we were walking home that night, That was my first time I saw anything about science."-- C P-G Cecilia was born in England in 1900. She would be 106 years old if she is still alive! She is a 20th century astronomer. She is best remembered for telling hot stars from cold stars. Cecilia was the first person to get a PhD from the Harvard College Observatory and was the first woman to lead the university's astronomy department. Cecilia won a prize called the Henry Norris Russell Prize from the American Astronomical Society.
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