Monday, November 3, 2008


Annie Cannon


(1863-1941)

-She applied yet a third scheme, derived from Fleming's and Maury's, an "arbitrary" division of stars into the spectral classes O, B, A, F, G, K, M, and so on

-Cannon also published catalogs of variable stars (including 300 she discovered)

http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/cannon.html

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