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 they ais eorized that wom 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. she was devoted to the stars. using professor pickering s telescope, photographs of stars, annie cannon classified more stars than anyone else, anyone else in history. over half a million stars. she actually created the
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she was devoted to the stars. using professor pickering s telescope, photographs of stars, annie cannon classified more stars than anyone else, anyone else in history. over half a million stars. she actually created the 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