Annie Jump Cannon: 'Computer' Who Classified the Stars

Friday, November 11, 2016 - 19:51 in Astronomy & Space

Annie Jump Cannon was a female astronomer best known for coming up with the current system of stellar classification. She was one of the so-called Harvard computers who analyzed photographic plates of the stars.

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