Astronomer Who Is Deaf - Blog Posts

zwickygirl

10 years ago

Thank you Google for the great Doodle honoring Annie Jump Cannon today!

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. She was nearly deaf throughout her career.

(from Wikipedia)