Known as the “census taker of the sky,” Annie Jump Cannon was a brilliant astronomer that revolutionized the way scientists classify stars.

Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification.

9 abr 2024 · Annie Jump Cannon (born December 11, 1863, Dover, Delaware, U.S.—died April 13, 1941, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American astronomer ...

Annie Jump Cannon was the eldest of three daughters of Wilson Cannon, a Delaware shipbuilder and state senator, and his second wife, Mary Jump.

16 ene 2022 · In 1933, she founded the Annie J. Cannon Prize to be awarded periodically to outstanding women astronomers. This prize symbolized what may be ...

17 abr 2019 · A trailblazing scientist, Annie Jump Cannon is responsible for the official classification of hundreds of thousands of stars.

Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was a deaf American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of ...

The Annie Jump Cannon Award is for outstanding research and promise for future research by a postdoctoral woman researcher. It is given to a North American ...

Cannon became curator of astronomical photographs of the Observatory in 1911 and professor of astronomy in 1938. She published the Draper Catalogue Extension in ...

She died from heart disease on April 13, 1941. Annie Jump Cannon was an outstanding scientist whose research helped shape contemporary astronomy. Harlow Shapley ...