Annie Jump Cannon - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• In 1925 received the first honorary doctorate Oxford University ever awarded to a woman.
• In 1929 the National League of Women Voters listed her as one of the 12 "greatest living American women".
• In 1931 awarded the Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
• In 1932 awarded the Ellen Richards Prize.
• First woman elected an officer of the American Astronomical Society.
• In 1938 named the William Cranch Bond Astronomer at Harvard.
• The lunar crater Cannon is named after her.
• She was nicknamed "Census Taker of the Sky" for classifying 230,000 stellar bodies, more than any other person, male or female.
• The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is named in her honor. It has been awarded annually to a woman astronomer in North America since 1934.
• Cannon Hall, a residence dormitory at the University of Delaware is named in her honor.