Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Haynes (who shared it with a male colleague). She started by examining the bright southern hemisphere stars. While at Wellesley Professor Whiting inspired her to learn about spectroscopy.

Pickering Annie Jump Cannon is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures. With Edward C.