Susan Faye Cannon
Susan Faye Cannon, born Walter Faw Cannon (1925 in Durham, North Carolina – 1981) was an American historian of science. The daughter of James Cannon III (1892-1960), Dean of Duke University Divinity School, Cannon gained a degree in physics at Princeton University. Turning to history of science, her PhD (Harvard University, 1956) was titled 'On uniformity and progression in early Victorian cosmography'. In the early 1960s she wrote influential articles on uniformitarian geology, the 'Cambridge network', William Whewell's tidology, John Herschel, the relation of Charles Darwin to William Paley, liberal Anglicanism, and the general place of  science in nineteenth-century culture. From 1962 to 1979 Cannon was a historian of science and a Curator of the Classical Physics and Geosciences collection at the Smithsonian Institution. She founded and was the first editor of the "Smithsonian Journal of History". In 1976 Cannon changed her name to Susan Faye Cannon, thereafter referring to herself as a 'male woman'.