Campbell O'Hara

12/16/2024

May the peace and warmth of
Christmas surround and comfort
You throughout the year

Merry Christmas

From the Lawyers and Staff at
Campbell O’Hara

07/12/2023

Happy Stampede from Campbell O’Hara.

02/03/2023

On February 2, 1897, Canadian Clara Brett Martin became the first woman lawyer in the British Empire. At a time when women weren’t even permitted to sit on juries, Clara successfully challenged the Law Society of Upper Canada to admit women as solicitors (1893) and barristers (1897).

12/21/2022

Merry Christmas from the Lawyers and Staff at Campbell O'Hara

07/14/2022

Louise - Knitting at Stampede. Second prize for one of her creations.

03/04/2022

Thank you. Wonderful staff at Campbell O'Hara, joy to be with.

Today is employee appreciation day. 💯💯💯

Thank you to all of our loyal employees, our business would be nothing without all of you.

08/08/2021

On August 8, 1988, intentionally 8-8-88, O'Hara Law Office opened its doors and the firm Campbell O'Hara was born. Today is the 33rd anniversary.

07/12/2021

Stampede 2021

12/16/2020

08/05/2020

❝Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE

• Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

• Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

• Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

• Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish).

• Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

• Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

• Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

(OP: Matthew Gardner)