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Annie Jump Cannon

1863-1941
(Emily Gettings)

Astronomer
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e.it/immagini/cannon.jpg Area of Expertise: Studying Stars
College: Wellesley (1880-1884)
Degree: Astronomy
Famous for making a different scale for recognizing stars.

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Annie Jump Cannon was born in Dover,
Delaware. She was the daughter of the
Edward Pickering,
state senator and one of the first girls in Professor at
Delaware to go to college. During the ten
years following her four years at Harvard
Wellesley, she got Scarlet Fever and
became deaf. After those ten years, she
University
went to Radcliffe College in 1895 for
Astronomy. She went to the staff of
Harvard in 1896 and worked there from
1911-1932 as curator of astronomical
photos. She was named the William Williamina
Cranch Bond Astronomer at Harvard in
1938. While there, she even made a
Fleming,
different way to classify stars by their Astronomer
temperature. When she was over 70
years old, she classified thousands of
stars. That’s what I call a dedicated
Astronomer!

Sources: The Grolier Library of Science Biographies (Volume 2) published by Grolier

Education (copyright 1996) (pg. 98-99) editors: John Daintith & Derek Gjertsen