Annie Scott Dill Maunder (1868 to 1947), born Annie Russell in Strabane, County Tyrone, was an Irish astronomer who studied mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge, and finished as the top mathematician of her year in 1889. She worked at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. She recorded the first evidence that sunspots appear progressively closer to the equator over the eleven year solar cycle, and she devised the butterfly diagram with her husband Edward Walter Maunder. Barred from the Royal Astronomical Society because she was a woman, she was elected a Fellow in 1916, twenty one years after her first refusal.
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was an Irish astronomer
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Northern Irish astronomer and mathematician Annie Scott Dill Maunder
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She was the first to find evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence
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was an Irish astronomer
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was an Irish astronomer
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she was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society
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Annie studied at Girton College, Cambridge
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recorded the first evidence of the movement of the sunspot emergence
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