What Stars are Made of

A good biography of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkinand her work in Astronomy. I found that the fact she suffered because she was a woman in Astronomy. I think that The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel does a better job of discussing this issue. Otherwise an excellent biography and a good study in how to succeed in a field dominated by men, though that is rapidly changing