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About Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon 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.
Everything about Annie Jump Cannon →- Occupation
- astronomer, physicist, university teacher, astrophysicist
- Position held
- curator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 11, 1863
- Died
- April 13, 1941