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Today is the birthday of astronomer Henry Norris Russell, who was born in Oyster Bay, New York, in 1877. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1900. He became a professor at Princeton in 1911 and took over as director of the university's observatory in 1912.
HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University (Read October 18, 1946, in the Symposium of the American Philosophical Society on America's Role in the Growth of Science) ON an occasion like this it would be out of place to attempt a formal historical account of American astronomy. The very title shows that
Jun 22, 2023 · Her boss, Harlow Shapley, sent her findings to the expert in stellar composition at the time, Princeton's Henry Norris Russell, who told her that her results must be wrong.
Henry Russell was an American astronomer who, independently of Ejnar Hertzsprung, realized the relationship between a star's temperature (color) and its brightness, and designed a diagram illustrating this relationship in 1913, later called the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
Sep 30, 2020 · Author of Astronomy, The HR diagram, Photographic determinations of the position of the moon, Determination of stellar parallax, Fate and freedom, The arc spectrum of iron (Fe 1), The determination of the elements of eclipsing binaries, Determinations of stellar parallax.
Henry Norris Russell. Born: 25-Oct - 1877. Birthplace: Oyster Bay, NY. Died: 18-Feb - 1957. Location of death: Princeton, NJ. Cause of death: unspecified. Remains: Buried, Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ. Gender: Male. Religion: Presbyterian.
- October 25, 1877
- February 18, 1957
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