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Henry Norris Russell

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Henry Norris Russell 1877-1957, American astronomer, b. Oyster Bay, N.Y., grad. Princeton, 1897. In 1902 he went to Cambridge, England, to study. He returned to Princeton in 1905, was professor of astronomy there (1911-27), research professor (1927-47), and director of the observatory (1912-47). In 1947 he became research associate at the Harvard Observatory. Russell established a method of determining the dimensions of eclipsing binary stars. With Ejnar Hertzsprung he devised the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram . His spectroscopic studies resulted in his development of a theory of stellar evolution . He wrote Determinations of Stellar Parallax (1911), Astronomy (1926-27), Fate and Freedom (1927), The Solar System and Its Origin (1935), and The Masses of the Stars (with C. E. Moore, 1940).

Bibliography: See biography by D. H. DeVorkin (2000).

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