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The Stolen Credit For What Makes Up the Sun

Posted by Soulskill on from the stellar-gasbags dept.

StartsWithABang writes: Sure, it's easy today to look at the Sun and know it's a ball of (mostly) hydrogen, generating energy by combining those protons in a chain into helium through the process of nuclear fusion. But before we even knew that nuclear fusion was possible, we needed to figure out what the Sun was made out of, a more difficult task than you'd imagine. The credit was given to Henry Norris Russell (of Hertzsprung-Russell diagram fame), but he completely stole the work from a woman you never heard of: his student, Cecilia Payne, after discouraging her from publishing her work on the subject four years prior.

6 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Out of respect for Dice's agenda, let me ask... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dox this person and get them fired from their job!!!

    -SJW

  2. Yep women did everything. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They invented the sun. They ate the apple.

  3. Re: Fuck off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ahem. It's called "herstory". Stop supporting terms used by the cisgender-priviledged patriarchy to oppress women.

    -SJW

  4. Re:Cosmos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hertzsrung --> Russell.

    Is there any way you could provide a visual aid for that? Maybe a diagram?

  5. Re:Bad advice right from the start! by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you are going to look directly into Wikipedia, the Academy of Science recommends you hold a piece of cardboard over your eyes to avoid brain damage.

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  6. Re:this is familiar by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's hertory! There's no fucking "s" after you remove "his"!

    After you remove 'him' there is no fucking, period.

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