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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annie Jump Cannon has received more than 572,016 page views. Her biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Annie Jump Cannon is the 104th most popular astronomer (up from 145th in 2019), the 1,443rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,201st in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 104 out of 644. Before her are Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Reinhard Genzel, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, and Adelard of Bath. After her are Angelo Secchi, Jean Picard, Petrus Plancius, James Van Allen, Henry Norris Russell, and Karl Ludwig Harding.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 32. Before her are Franz Stuck, George Santayana, Heinrich Rickert, Reinhard Scheer, William Randolph Hearst, and Leo Baekeland. After her are Essad Pasha Toptani, Andrés Bonifacio, Paul Painlevé, Hugo Münsterberg, Mary Jane Kelly, and Franz von Hipper. Among people deceased in 1941, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 43. Before her are Sisowath Monivong, Günther Lütjens, Mikhail Kirponos, Émile Bernard, Gottfried Feder, and Frederick Griffith. After her are Dmitry Pavlov, Tullio Levi-Civita, Rudolf Hilferding, Paul-Jacques Curie, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, and Franz Gürtner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 1,443 out of 20,380. Before her are Sam Walton (1918), Bernard Herrmann (1911), Robert Whittaker (1920), Peter Eisenman (1932), Rene Russo (1954), and Andre Agassi (1970). After her are Phil Ochs (1940), Harry Harrison (1925), Kim Carnes (1945), Bob Gunton (1945), William Westmoreland (1914), and Roberts Blossom (1924).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 17. Before her are Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928), Russell Alan Hulse (1950), Percival Lowell (1855), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), and Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941). After her are James Van Allen (1914), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Frank Drake (1930), Cleveland Abbe (1838), and Maria Mitchell (1818).

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