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Google Doodle honors astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt on Apollo 11 anniversary – Source CNET Internet News

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Google honors Dilhan Eryurt, a Turkish astrophysicist and NASA scientist. 


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Google Doodle marked the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on Monday by honoring Dilhan Eryurt, a Turkish astrophysicist and NASA scientist. 

Eryurt, born in Turkey in 1926, studied mathematics and astronomy at Istanbul University. In her extensive career as an astrophysicist, Eryurt worked with Alastair G.W. Cameron at NASA to study the properties and evolution of the sun. Her research contributed to the success of the Apollo 11 mission, and she was later awarded the Apollo Achievement Award for her…

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