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Mrs. Annie Jump Cannon, assistant at the College Observatory since 1897 and curator of astronomical photographs since 1907, has been selected by a special committee of the National League of Women Voters as one of the 12 greatest living American women. The group includes Miss Jane Addams, Madame Homer, and Mrs. Edith Wharton.
Mrs. Cannon during her astronomical work has completed a bibliography of variable stars comprising 50,000 references, has discovered 200 variable stars, and has completed a catalogue of 220,000 stellar spectra. She is also the author of various College Observatory annals and of short papers and notes on stellar spectra.
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