For the #SciArtSeptember#histsci ⁠ Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard

a lecture which changed her life. She wrote, “My world had been so shaken that I experienced something very like a nervous breakdown.” She had gone to hear Sir Arthur Eddington’s account of his 1919 expedition to the island of Principe to photograph stars with apparent positions near the sun during