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Until 100 years ago, it was believed the stars were made of iron, silicon.In 1925 Cecilia Payne applied the new field of quantum mechanics to discover the sun was mostly hydrogen & helium. She “paved the way for understanding how stars form & evolve, where chemical elements come from”#womeninstem<\/p>\n
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