Annie Jump Cannon

Why Is Annie Jump Cannon Influential?

According to Wikipedia, 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. She developed the mnemonic "Oh! Be A Fine Girl — Kiss Me!" used by students to memorize the spectral classification of stars. 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.

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Annie Jump Cannon's Published Works

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Published Papers

Spectra of bright southern stars. (1897) (195)
The Henry Draper extension . (1936) (12)
Henry Draper (HD) catalog and HD extension (9)
Spectra of bright southern stars photographed with the 13-inch Boyden telescope as part of the Henry Draper Memorial (8)
The Henry Draper catalogue 0h, 1h, 2h, and 3h (7)
Williamina Paton Fleming (1911) (5)
Classification of 1,477 stars by means of their photographic spectra (4)
Summary of a Study of Stellar Distribution (3)
SARAH FRANCES WHITING. (1927) (3)
Spectra of Ninety-four Variable Stars (1934) (2)
William Henry Pickering: 1858-1938 (1938) (2)
Peculiar Spectra in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1924) (2)
The Henry Draper (HD) Catalogue. Vol.100: HD extension (2)
Biographical memoir of Solon Irving Bailey, 1854-1931 (1932) (1)
Herbert Hall Turner (1931) (1)
The Henry Draper charts of stellar spectra (1936) (1)
On the Relation of Spectral Type to Magnitude. (1921) (1)
The Henry Draper catalogue : 4h, 5h and 6h (1)
SOLON IRVING BAILEY, 1854-1931 (1931) (1)
MRS. HENRY DRAPER. (1915) (1)
Stars Having Peculiar Spectra. Eight New Variable Stars. (1922) (1)
The Henry Draper catalogue : 19h and 20h (1)
WILLIAMINA PATON FLEMING. (1911) (1)
Spectra having bright lines (1)
The Local System and Stars of Class A (1)
The Henry Draper Memorial (1915) (1)
Second catalogue of variable stars (1)
Omicron Ceti: Photographic light curve and spectroscopic notes (abstract) (0)
GENERAL NOTES AND REVIEWS (1934) (0)
Obituary: Lady Huggins (1915) (0)
The Henry Draper extension. (No.6) (1936) (0)
Distribution of light in stellar spectra (0)
Concerning The Suspected Variable or Nova near S Corvi (1926) (0)
Comparison of objective prism and slit spectrograms (0)
Faint spectra for the study of galactic structure (1939) (0)
Nova Sagittarii 1926, H.V. 3994 . (1927) (0)
Notes on Changes in the Spectrum η Carinae (1920) (0)
Three New Variable Stars (1928) (0)
THE MARIA MITCHELL MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP OF THE HARVARD OBSERVATORY (1917) (0)
The Henry Draper catalogue : 7h and 8h (0)
The spectra of U Cephei (abstract) (0)
Report of the Astronomical Fellowship Committee (0)
On the Period of RZ Eridani . (1927) (0)
Reduction of micrometer measures of times in the spectra of various stars (0)
Spectra of Comparison Stars for Eros (1929) (0)
Photographic Magnitude of Kappa Crucis (1930) (0)
On the Spectra, Periods, and Ranges of Long Period Variables (1928) (0)
Concerning the Variable Star near S Corvi, 1.1926 (1927) (0)
The spectra of 745 double stars (0)
Peculiar spectra found in preparing the new Draper Catalogue (0)
Harvard catalogue of long period variable stars (0)
GENERAL NOTES (1937) (0)
Exercises in Astronomy (0)
Suspected Nova 47.1909 Herculis (1924) (0)
Eduardo Carlo Pickering (0)
The Henry Draper extension. II . (1949) (0)
Maxima and minima of variable stars of long period (0)
The Distribution of Stars of Spectral Class B. (1922) (0)
The new Draper Catalogue (0)
The spectra of variable stars of long period (abstract) (0)
GENERAL NOTES AND REVIEWS (1934) (0)
Observations in Arequipa (0)
The Henry Draper catalogue : 21h, 22h, and 23h (0)
A variable bright hydrogen line. (0)
The spectrum of Nova Aquilae, No. 3 (abstract) (0)
The Variable Stars (1912) (0)
Long Period Variable Stars (1925) (0)
Fifty-One New Variable Stars. (1921) (0)