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It’s very sad, devastating,” José Gutierrez’s mother said, “... to know that he was coming home from school — was going to ...

Annie Jump Cannon was an astronomer, suffragist, and photographer. Nearly deaf for much of her life, Cannon is credited with the invention of the Harvard spectral classification system, which assigns ...