Bench Talk | The Woman Who Read The Stars - Mosses Around Caves - September Sky | Sept. 11, 2023

Another example of gender bias in the sciences. Mary Williams describes the career of Dr. Cecilia Payne, the first person to describe the composition of stars back in the 1920s. Payne's controversial results were criticized at first, so her career in astrophysics stalled. Eventually however, her conclusions were found to be correct, and her discovery seen as groundbreaking. She finally received the recognition she deserved in the 1940s and 1950s. Next, Amanda Fuller interviews Morghan McCool (University of Louisville) about McCool's research on the diversity of mosses that grow around the entrances to caves. Finally, J Scott Miller describes what we can see in the night sky during the month of September.

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