The death has occurred in Glasgow of Annie Cannon nee O Brien. Her remains are being brought to her home in Ardsbeg on Friday evening.
Funeral Mass on Saturday morning at 11am in Christ the King Church, Gortahork with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.
The wake, funeral and burial is strictly for immediate family only. The Funeral Mass may be viewed live on https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/christ-the-king-gortahork
In compliance with Government and HSE Guidelines, wake, funeral and interment are strictly private to family only please with a maximum of 10 people permitted.
which are the raw data sheets with which they have mapped the universe. after being dazzled by fleming, professor pickering then hired only women as computers. to manage his team of computer, he hired annie cannon who was born on this very day in history in 1863, which is why she s being celebrated today on her birthday with today s google doodle. well, a google doodle seen around the world is not nothing, but like most women in science, annie cannon has never been given enough credit for her work. annie studied physics and astronomy at wellesley, a women s college not far from harvard. annie s mother actually got her interested in astronomy. annie s parents fully supported her educational pursuits in a day when college was a vary
the harvard man and replaced him with his maid. wilamina fleming who did a better job, even without the benefit of a college education. she actually turned out to be so good that she was eventually appointed curator of astronomical photos, photos which are the raw data sheets with which they have mapped the universe. after being dazzled by fleming, professor pickering then hired only women as computers. to manage his team of computer, he hired annie cannon who was born on this very day in history in 1863, which is why she s being celebrated today on her birthday with today s google doodle. well, a google doodle seen around the world is not nothing,
classification system for stars that was formally adopted by the international astronomical union in 1922, and it is the classification system that the world still uses today. it is called the harvard spectral classification. if she had been a man, anthony cannon, it would have been called the cannon spectral classification. annie cannon died at the age of 77 in 1941. the national academy of sciences did not admit its first female astronomer until 1978. happy birthday, annie cannon. and thank you.
but like most women in science, annie cannon has never been given enough credit for her work. annie studied physics and astronomy at wellesley, a women s college not far from harvard. annie s mother actually got her interested in astronomy. annie s parents fully supported her educational pursuits in a day when college was a vary choice for girl, even for wealthy families who could afford it. just seven years before, annie started college at wellesley, a harvard professor published a book entitled sex in edge case which this eorized that women couldn t bear the strain of education. that all that cognition, all the computing that a young woman would have to do in college would actually interfere with a young woman s reproductive health. as it happened, annie cannon never married and never had children.