Cannon, Annie Jump

1863 - Annie Jump Cannon was born on the 11th of December.

1880 - Studied at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, one of the top academic schools for women in the U.S.

1884 - Graduated with a degree in physics and returned home.

1893 - She wrote to her former instructor at Wellesley, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Sarah Frances Whiting, to see if there was a job opening.

1894 - Returned to Wellesley for graduate study in physics and astronomy.

1896 - Hired as Edward C. Pickering's assistant at the Harvard observatory.

1907 - She had received an M.A. from Wellesley.

1925 - Awarded honorary doctorate from Oxford University, England, the first woman ever to be so honored.

1929 - The National League of Women Voters listed her as one of the 12 "greatest living American women".

1931 - Received the Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.

1932 - Recipient of the Ellen Richards Prize.

       - First woman elected an officer of the American Astronomical Society.

1938 - Named the William Cranch Bond Astronomer at Harvard.

1941 - Died on the 13th of April.

The Cannon crater on the Moon is named after her.