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Annie Jump Cannon (/ ˈ k æ n ə n /; December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. [2]
Annie Jump Cannon was the first female scientist to be recognized for many awards and titles in her field of study. She was the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford and the Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, and the first female officer in the American Astronomical Society. Cannon ...
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (/ ˈ l ɛ v ɪ t /; July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. [2] [1] [3] Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast distances to remote galaxies led to a shift in the scale and understanding of the scale and the nature of the universe. [4]
Here, Matlin provides the voice of Annie Jump Cannon, a deaf astronomer at Harvard who, along with Edward C. Pickering, 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.
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The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to a woman resident of North America, who is within five years of receipt of a PhD, for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar contributions in related sciences which have immediate application to astronomy.
Nick Cannon made his scripted TV return for the first time in a decade with Fox's Accused — and he was up for the challenge. "I'm a fan of the show. It's great television. It makes you think and ...