Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer
Died when: 77 years 123 days (928 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Annie Jump Cannon (/'kæn?n/;December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification.
With Edward C.Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types.
She was nearly deaf throughout her career.She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women's Party.
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