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Annie Scott Dill Maunder was an Irish astronomer, who recorded the first evidence of the movement of the sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the 11-year solar cycle, finding the now-called Maunder Minimum. As sole author, she also devised with her husband, Edward Walter Maunder, the butterfly diagram for sunspots. Alone, she discovered that the sunspots in the Sun were asymmet…
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science · Irish astronomer (1868–1947) · astronomer · mathematician · computer · scientist · also Annie Scott Dill Maunder, Annie S. D. Maunder, Annie Russell Maunder, Annie Maunder, Annie Scott Dill Russell, Mrs Walter Maunder
Born 14 April 1868 · Died 15 September 1947 · Q539093
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“s father submitted a request for her to obtain the job, and a powerful promoter, Sir Robert Ball, wrote her a letter of recommendation. For a year, Annie worked as a mathematics mistress at the Ladies”
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An asteroid was named after Maunder; it is called Anniemaunder
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The RAS established the Annie Maunder medal for an outstanding contribution to outreach and public engagement in astronomy or geophysics
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“Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life”
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“Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! he payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?”
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Died 1947-09-15.
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Sydney Chapman, President of the Royal Society used the butterfly diagram as the subject of his 1943 presidential address, an honour for something she considered as her "most cherished pieces of work"
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Was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, 21 years after being refused membership because of her gender
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Published a paper covering "an analysis of the formidable sunspot data-set that had been gathered at the ROG, covering 1889–1901" as sole author
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Annie and Walter created the butterfly diagram to analyse sunspots, showing the latitude of the sunspots over time
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Annie, along with other members of the BAA, travelled to Algiers to observe the total Solar eclipse of May 28, 1900
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Walter was not a designated member of the expedition, so he and Annie went on their own
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Annie received a grant from Girton College to acquire a short-focus camera with a 1
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And Annie was required to resign from her job due to restrictions on married women working in public service
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Annie began her work at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, serving as one of the "lady computers" assigned to the solar department
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Her first year at Greenwich, the number of recorded observations in the solar department exceeded 7 times the average number of recordings for the past 35 years
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Passed the degree examinations with honours, as the top mathematician of her year at Girton
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Born 1868-04-14.
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In The Manse, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, to William Andrew Russell and Hessy Nesbitt Russell (née Dill)
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