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A portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the first person to receive a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard, was hung last year in the Faculty Room in University Hall. Only two of 49 portraits hanging in the room are of women.
A portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the first person to receive a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard, was hung last year in the Faculty Room in University Hall. Only two of 49 portraits hanging in the room are of women.

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