Alejandro Lopez
Mrs. Gray
Math II Honors
14 September 2016
Annie Jump Cannon Annie Jump Cannon was born on December 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware. Annie Jump Cannon was an astronomer, she had studied physics, mathematics, and astronomy at Wellesley College, she was a good student in mathematics, she went and worked at Harvard Observatory. She became a path that strong women want to follow in science, she discovered 300 variable stars and invented her own system of classification, which became the universal standard, she listed around 350,000 stars. Annie Jump Cannon died on April 13, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 77.
Annie Jump Cannon’s father was Wilson Cannon, a Delaware shipbuilder and state senator, her mother was Mary Jump, Annie was the oldest daughter. She was first taught about constellations, which became the main source of interest to stars for Annie, by her mother. She studied physics and astronomy at Wellesley College, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1884. After she graduated she went back to her hometown and did some photography, she got scarlet fever …show more content…
In 1896, Edward C. Pickering hired her as an assistant to the staff as Harvard. She joined a group of female astronomers, known as Pickering’s Women, which worked on documenting and classifying stars, Williamina P. S. Fleming was also on the team, Annie’s job was to study bright southern hemisphere stars. Annie Jump Cannon worked on the projected and combined two known systems and created a third system, the simplified classes O, B, A, F, G, K, M and was adopted as the universal standard. Annie’s work was published in the Henry Draper Catalogue, it was work from 1881 to 1924. In 1911, William Fleming, the curator of the observatory retired and Annie became the new curator of the
Mrs. Gray
Math II Honors
14 September 2016
Annie Jump Cannon Annie Jump Cannon was born on December 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware. Annie Jump Cannon was an astronomer, she had studied physics, mathematics, and astronomy at Wellesley College, she was a good student in mathematics, she went and worked at Harvard Observatory. She became a path that strong women want to follow in science, she discovered 300 variable stars and invented her own system of classification, which became the universal standard, she listed around 350,000 stars. Annie Jump Cannon died on April 13, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 77.
Annie Jump Cannon’s father was Wilson Cannon, a Delaware shipbuilder and state senator, her mother was Mary Jump, Annie was the oldest daughter. She was first taught about constellations, which became the main source of interest to stars for Annie, by her mother. She studied physics and astronomy at Wellesley College, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1884. After she graduated she went back to her hometown and did some photography, she got scarlet fever …show more content…
In 1896, Edward C. Pickering hired her as an assistant to the staff as Harvard. She joined a group of female astronomers, known as Pickering’s Women, which worked on documenting and classifying stars, Williamina P. S. Fleming was also on the team, Annie’s job was to study bright southern hemisphere stars. Annie Jump Cannon worked on the projected and combined two known systems and created a third system, the simplified classes O, B, A, F, G, K, M and was adopted as the universal standard. Annie’s work was published in the Henry Draper Catalogue, it was work from 1881 to 1924. In 1911, William Fleming, the curator of the observatory retired and Annie became the new curator of the