Henry Norris Russell
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 67 years ago |
Date of birth | October 25,1877 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Oyster Bay |
New York | |
United States | |
Date of died | February 18,1957 |
Died | Princeton |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Influenced by | Ejnar Hertzsprung |
George Darwin | |
Arthur Robert Hinks | |
Job | Astronomer |
Books | Fate and Freedom |
The Solar System and Its Origin | |
Determination of Stellar Parallax | |
Some Problems of Sidereal Astronomy | |
The Masses of the Stars: With a General Catalogue of Dynamical Parallaxes | |
Determinations of Stellar Parallax - Scholar's Choice Edition | |
The Arc Spectrum of Iron, Fe 1, Part 1-2: Analysis of the Spectrum and the Zeeman Effect | |
Slaves of the War Lords | |
Astronomy: A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy ... | |
Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Henry Draper Medal | |
Franklin Medal | |
Rumford Prize | |
Janssen Medal | |
Lalande Prize | |
Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship | |
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship | |
Doctor advisor | Charles Augustus Young |
Known for | Hertzsprung–Russell diagram; Russell–Saunders term symbol; Vogt–Russell theorem |
Nationality | American |
Education | Princeton University |
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ID | 468514 |
Henry Norris Russell Life story
Henry Norris Russell ForMemRS HFRSE FRAS was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram. Russel is generally credited for discovering that stars are made primarily of Hydrogen, disproving the previous prevailing view about the composition of stars.