Honors
Awards
- Elected member of Royal Astronomical Society while still a student at Cambridge 1923
- Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy (1934) - first recipient
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (1936)
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1943)
- Emeritus Professor of Harvard University in 1967
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society in 1976
- Award of Merit from Radcliffe College in 1952
- Rittenhouse Medal from the Rittenhouse Astronomical Society at the Franklin Institute in 1961
- Honorary Degrees from Wilson College, Smith College, Western College, Colby College, and the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia
- Asteroid 2039 Payne-Gaposchkin named after her
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