| LC control no. | n 2006166532 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cannon, Annie Jump, 1863-1941 |
| Birth date | 18631211 |
| Death date | 19410413 |
| Place of birth | Dover (Del.) |
| Place of death | Cambridge (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Astronomy Stars--Classification |
| Affiliation | Wellesley College Radcliffe Observatory Harvard College Observatory |
| Profession or occupation | Astronomers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Delaware Art Museum for Her Letters, 1940-1941 (Annie Jump Cannon, 1863-1941; native of Dover, Del.; astronomer; graduate from Wellesley College; worked at the Radcliffe Observatory and began working at the Harvard Observatory in 1897; Cannon specialized in spectral photography and developed a system for classifying stars) Wikipedia, April 30, 2014 (Annie Jump Cannon; born December 11, 1863, Dover, Delaware; died April 13, 1941 in Cambridge, Mass; 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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