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Annie Jump Cannon |
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| American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon served as curator of astronomical photographs at the Harvard College Observatory from 1911 until 1938. Considered the first great woman astronomer, she became well known for classifying more than 350,000 stars by the spectra of their light. | ||||||
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