Annie Cannon 1863-1941
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Armstrong, Mabel
Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars. 2008, Stone Pine Press. This book for teens has a chapter on Cannon.
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"Annie Jump Cannon 1863-1941" in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, June 1941, vol. 53, p. 168.
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Camp, Carole
American Astronomers: Searchers and Wonderers. 1996, Enslow. One chapter of this book for teen readers is devoted to Canon’s life and work.
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Emberlin, D.
Science: Contributions of Women. 1977, Dillon Press. Includes a section on Cannon, pp. 7-27.
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Greenstein, George
"The Ladies of Observatory Hill" in American Scholar, Feb. 1993, p. 437. (Reprinted in his book Portraits of Discovery, 1998, John Wiley.)
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Hearnshaw, John
The Analysis of Starlight. 1986, Cambridge U. Press. See Chapter 5.
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Kidwell, P.
"Three Women of American Astronomy" in American Scientist, May/June 1990, p. 244.
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Merrill, P.
"Annie Jump Cannon" in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 102, no. 2, p. 74 (1942).
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Sobel, Dava
Sobel, Dava The Glass Universe. 2016, Viking. Includes a considerable amount of material on Cannon and her mentoring of other women.
Websites
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Annie Cannon pages at Wellesley College: Part of a student project, but with good local historical information.
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Annie Jump Cannon, Star Classifier (a short post on the Sky &Telescope website, 2016
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Obituary by H. A. Bruck in The Observatory, Vol. 64, p. 113-115 (1941) (click on “full printable article PDF”)
