Publishers Weekly, July 17th, 2000
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; a columnist (for 43 years) at Scientific American; and "the first astrophysical theorist in America." Without a major observatory of his own to manage, Russell coordinated the growing resources of American astronomy, bringing the practical astronomers watching the heavens together with the new physics that told us what ...
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