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Annie Jump Cannon

1863 - 1941

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Annie Jump Cannon (; 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 after 1893, as a result of scarlet fever. She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women's Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Annie Jump Cannon is the 113th most popular astronomer (down from 104th in 2019), the 1,503rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,443rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 113 out of 644. Before her are William Huggins, Lewis A. Swift, August Kopff, Stephen Gray, Robert Luther, and John Louis Emil Dreyer. After her are James Van Allen, Petrus Plancius, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Heinrich Schwabe, Yrjö Väisälä, and Abu-Mahmud Khojandi.

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Among people born in 1863, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 35. Before her are Leo Baekeland, Essad Pasha Toptani, Heinrich Rickert, Paul Painlevé, Reinhard Scheer, and Leopold Berchtold. After her are Felix Weingartner, William Randolph Hearst, Hugo Münsterberg, John Charles Fields, Franz von Hipper, and Émile Friant. Among people deceased in 1941, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 40. Before her are Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Pál Teleki, Sherwood Anderson, Günther Lütjens, Louis Chevrolet, and Günther Prien. After her are Christian Rakovsky, Mikhail Kirponos, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Sisowath Monivong, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Benjamin Lee Whorf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 1,503 out of 20,380. Before her are Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (1920), Sean Baker (1971), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), Arthur Penn (1922), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), and Elisha Otis (1811). After her are Moe Tucker (1944), Kim Kardashian (1980), Chris Evert (1954), Muddy Waters (1913), Tom Berenger (1949), and John Denver (1943).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 21. Before her are Percival Lowell (1855), Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928), George O. Abell (1927), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), and Lewis A. Swift (1820). After her are James Van Allen (1914), Frank Drake (1930), Maria Mitchell (1818), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), William Henry Pickering (1858), and Eleanor F. Helin (1932).

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