Annie Scott Dill Maunder

Annie Scott Dill Maunder, née Russell ( born April 14, 1868 in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, † September 15, 1947 in London) was a British astronomer and mathematician.

Annie Russell 1889 gained a BA (Bachelor of Arts) in mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge. From 1890 to 1895, was known as " Lady Computer" at the Royal Greenwich Observatory employs, in the run by Edward Walter Maunder Department for solar research. In addition to the evaluation of the photographic plates they also participated in the nightly observing program. In 1895 she married her boss, E. Walter Maunder, and had to give up their place. From then on she was his unpaid assistant. During the First World War, they returned and her husband as a cadet at the observatory back ( 1915-1920 ).

The sun occupied the Maunders life, many scientific papers they have published together. But Annie Maunder not limited to supporting her husband at work, but they worked independently. They took part in five expeditions to solar eclipses, organized the British Astronomical Association. When an eclipse 1898 in India reached a she designed corona camera used.

Another focus of her work was the origin of the constellations. In 1936 she suggested that they were introduced by a seafaring Indo- European folk to 2900 BC. They also dealt with astronomical information in the Bible and in particular with the dating of Christ's birth.

Since 1892, she served on the co-founded by Walter Maunder British Astronomical Association and was for many years editor of the " Journal of the BAA ". November 1916 she was elected as one of the first women to the Royal Astronomical Society.

After Annie Maunder a lunar crater is named.

Works

• Annie Maunder, E. Walter Maunder: The Heavens and Their Story. , 1909.