sciencefiction:

Now on Universe: new challenge for feminist science buffs! In short, the astronomer who invented a very important method for classifying stars by temperature was a woman named Annie Jump Cannon, who was paid like 25 cents a day and catalogued thousands of stars at the Harvard observatory in the late 1800s. Now, the mnemonic universally used to remember the acronym she invented is “Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me!” Lame. Let’s make a better one.