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This may be obscure for many of you, but I am going to ask it anyway, because this woman (along with another, who I may ask about tomorrow) is one of my two top candidates for "Women who should be more famous than they are." That and I think she has a cool name : >
In what field did Annie Jump Cannon distinguish herself?
Annie Jump Cannon was one of the premier astronomers of the twentieth century. She compiled the Draper catalog (which classified over 500,00 stars). According to the Information Please Almanac, the catalog was "One of the most significant achievements in 20th-century astronomy and the basis for contemporary theoretical understanding of stellar evolution."
Oh, and the "Woodstock" comment? My college Astronomy 101 professor used the chorus in her lecture about stellar evolution....
In what field did Annie Jump Cannon distinguish herself?
Annie Jump Cannon was one of the premier astronomers of the twentieth century. She compiled the Draper catalog (which classified over 500,00 stars). According to the Information Please Almanac, the catalog was "One of the most significant achievements in 20th-century astronomy and the basis for contemporary theoretical understanding of stellar evolution."
Oh, and the "Woodstock" comment? My college Astronomy 101 professor used the chorus in her lecture about stellar evolution....