ANNIE SCOTT DILL MAUNDER

BIRTH AND DEATH

Birth: 4/14/1868     Death: 9/15/1947

OCCUPATION

scientist

BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY

Annie Scott Dill Maunder was an Irish-British 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 asymmetrical. She was one of the leading astronomers of her time, but because of her gender, her contribution was often underplayed at the time. In 1916 she was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, 21 years after being refused membership because of her gender.

NOTABLE WORK

WHY THEY MATTER

Annie Scott Dill Maunder was a pioneering astronomer who made significant contributions to our understanding of solar activity, particularly through her discovery of the movement of sunspots and the development of the butterfly diagram. Her work challenged existing scientific knowledge and advanced the field of solar physics, despite facing gender-based obstacles in her career. Maunder's innovative research and perseverance in the face of discrimination highlight her intellectual uniqueness and groundbreaking contributions to astronomy.

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