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Annie Jump Cannon was the eldest of three daughters of Wilson Cannon, a Delaware shipbuilder and state senator, and his second wife, Mary Jump. Annie's mother taught her the constellations and stimulated her interest in astronomy.
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Annie Jump Cannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Welcome to the Annie Jump Cannon Homepage at Wellesley College! Author: Logan Hennessey '00 ; ASTR 210, 1998 Autumn ... Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) ... portrait of Annie Jump Cannon...
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Annie Jump Cannon; Week of August 1, 2000 ... Annie Jump Cannon, Class of 1884, astronomer extraordinaire, toward the end of her life said "In troubled days it is good to have something outside our planet, something fine and distant for comfort."
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(1863-1941) Annie Jump Cannon, the first astronomer to classify the heavens systematically, was born December 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware, U.S.A. She was educated at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts and Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Annie Jump Cannon was the most famous. She was born in Dover, Delaware and studied at Wellesley College, graduating in 1884. She became an expert in the new ...
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Description: First hired by Harvard College Observatory to carry out astronomical calculations, Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) eventually became one of the foremost American astronomers, known especially for her work on variable stars. ... Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), sitting at desk by Smithsonian Institution.
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A Portrait of Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, 1864-1941 ... More Information about Annie Jump Cannon ... One of the United States' pioneering women astronomers, Annie Jump Cannon is noted for her work classifying the spectra of over 425,000 stars, using a system that she developed at the Harvard College Observatory in the early...
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Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) developed a stellar classification system that became the standard of the Harvard Observatory. She went on to classify over 500,000 stars--more than any person had done--and oversee their cataloging and publication. ... During her long career, Cannon garnered many firsts and awards:
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