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...

Henry D. Russell, 78, of Dover, a marine biologist and researcher, died unexpectedly Saturday in his home. Mr. Russell was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard in 1932. He received a master's degree in 1933 and a doctorate in 1940, both from...

David H. DeVorkin. Princeton Univ., $49.50 (476p) ISBN 0-691-04918-1 When Henry Russell died at age 80 in 1957, he had been (among other things) a Princeton professor; an expert on binary stars and solar evolution; the co-creator of the important Hertzsprung-Russell diagram;...