Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected because it contradicted the scientific wisdom of the time, which held that there were no significant elemental differences between the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved she was correct. Her work on the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics.Photograph credit: Science Service; restored by Adam Cuerden
It's always nice to see people or yourself as belonging to categories. Here are some categories that I myself proudly belong to, it helps me become an indentitist trying to identify with an identity:
See more fun ones at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Beliefs, especially in the history of the article, because a lot of cool and funny boxes are getting deleted by admins without a good sense of humor.
Just in case you didn't get it, it was a joke. Being something, standing up for soemthing, even if it's anti antiness, is what you could call having principles. Cervantes said only the man who fights for his principles is truly alive, even if his hero ends up fighting a lot of windmills. Still, I detest being labeled anything. See what Sartre's take on this. By the way, as opposed to his own preaching, even he belonged to some categories, and could be labeled as something as opposed to something else. Opposed is a root of many of the problems of the human condition, because being labeled into a category is one thing, being opposed to something is quite different. See what happens when you want everything [my way], instead of letting a man be his way, in the name of preemption. Here's another angle on the whole topic, Honey, pass the bombs.
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