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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 546,270 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Annie Jump Cannon is the 145th most popular astronomer (down from 113th in 2019), the 2,203rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,579th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 145 out of 531. Before her are Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Antonie Pannekoek, Pierre Janssen, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, and Maria Mitchell. After her are Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Peter Andreas Hansen, Guillaume Bigourdan, Eugène Joseph Delporte, and Hermann Carl Vogel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 50. Before her are Andrés Bonifacio, Ludwig Borchardt, Felix Weingartner, Paul Painlevé, Abdul Karim, and Manuel Gomes da Costa. After her are Arthur Machen, Alexander Siloti, Charles Martin Hall, Paul Drude, Hermann Bahr, and Émile Friant. Among people deceased in 1941, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 63. Before her are Ivan Panfilov, Hans Berger, Charles Huntziger, Amrita Sher-Gil, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, and Natalie of Serbia. After her are Alfred Hettner, Henri Cornet, Guillermo Kahlo, Jelly Roll Morton, Guido Adler, and Hjalmar Söderberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 2,203 out of 18,182. Before her are Richard Rodgers (1902), Edward Witten (1951), Samuel Fuller (1912), Charles Whitman (1941), David Baltimore (1938), and Lee J. Cobb (1911). After her are George Crumb (1929), Henry Winkler (1945), Thomas Tew (1649), Bill Finger (1914), Matt Dillon (1964), and Wayne Shorter (1933).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Annie Jump Cannon ranks 25. Before her are Frank Drake (1930), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Harlow Shapley (1885), and Maria Mitchell (1818). After her are George Phillips Bond (1825), Vesto Slipher (1875), Henry Draper (1837), George William Hill (1838), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), and Michael H. Hart (1932).

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