Henry Russell was born on October 25, 1877, in Oyster Bay, New York. He received his higher education at Princeton University and had earned his Ph.D. by the age of 23. He became the director of Princeton's observatory in 1912. During the course of his...

1877-1957 American astronomer who preferred developing theories to collecting data. Unlike many astronomers, Russell amassed information only to analyze specific problems. As a result of his methodology, Russell often was one of the first astronomers...

Henry Norris Russell (October 25, 1877 – February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed RS coupling which is...