By Jackson Woodburn and Beth Rosenberg

Born December 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware Died April 13, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 77 Oldest of three daughters of shipbuilder and state senator Wilson cannon and his second wife Mary Jump Almost completely deaf GENERAL INFORMATION

Went to school at Wilmington Conference Academy In 1880, she went to Wellesley College in Massachusetts, which is one of the top academic schools for women in the U.S. In 1894 her mother died, which made life at home more difficult In late 1894 she enrolled in Radcliffe Women’s College at Harvard Edward Pickering Hired Cannon as his assistant at the Harvard Observatory Earned her Masters degree from Wellesley in 1907 EDUCATION

Worked at the Harvard Observatory She took over the analysis started by Nettie Farrar and continued by Williamina Flemming Cannon applied her own scheme which resulted in the OBAFGKM classification system that we still use today She classified around 350,000 stars in her lifetime, published in the Henry Draper catalogues She published catalogues of variable stars, including 300 that she discovered herself Became the curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard Her career spanned more than 40 years PROFESSIONAL CAREER

1925- Received the first honorary doctorate ever awarded to a woman the National League of Women Voters listed her as one of the 12 greatest living American women Awarded the Henry Draper medal from the National Academy of Sciences Awarded the Ellen Richards Prize Was the first woman to be elected an officer of the American Astronomical Society Named the William Cranch Bond Astronomer at Harvard Cannon Hall at the University of Delaware is named in her honor The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is named in her honor, annually awarded to a woman astronomy in North America since 1934 AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS

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