Henry Russell
- Born: October 25, 1877 (Oyster Bay, New York)
- Died: February 18, 1957 (Princeton, New Jersey)
Education
- 1897: AB, Princeton University
- 1898: AM, Princeton University
- 1899: PhD, Princeton University (Astronomy)
Major Positions
- 1903–1905: Cambridge University, Carnegie Assistant, Cambridge Observatory
- 1905–1908: Princeton University, Instructor in Astronomy
- 1908–1911: Princeton University, Assistant Professor of Astronomy
- 1911–1927: Princeton University, Professor of Astronomy
- 1927–1947: Princeton University, Research Professor of Astronomy
- 1947–1957: Princeton University, Emeritus Research Professor of Astronomy
Other Positions
- 1912–1947: Princeton University, Director, Princeton Observatory
- 1918–1919: United States Department of War, Engineer, Bureau of Aircraft Production
- 1933–1933: American Association for the Advancement of Science, President
- 1934–1937: American Astronomical Society, President
- 1944–1944: National Bureau of Standards, Researcher
- 1948–1952: Harvard University, Research Associate, Harvard College Observatory
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
Princeton University Library, Manuscripts Division, Princeton, New Jersey
Online Finding Aid
Published Resources
Harlow Shapley, "Henry Norris Russell: 1877-1957", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
David H. DeVorkin, Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American Astronomers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
A. G. Davis Philip and Louis C. Green, "Henry Norris Russell and the H-R Diagram," Sky and Telescope 55 (1978): 306-310
David H. DeVorkin, "Steps Toward the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram," Physics Today 31 (1978): 32-39
David H. DeVorkin, "Venus 1882: Public, Parallax, and HNR," Sky and Telescope 64 (1982): 524-526
David H. DeVorkin and Ralph Kenat, "Quantum Physics and the Stars, 2: Henry Norris Russell and the Abundances of the Elements in the Atmospheres of the Sun and Stars," Journal for the History of Astronomy 14 (1983): 180-222
Ralph Kenat and David H. DeVorkin, "Quantum Physics and the Stars, 3: Henry Norris Russell and the Search for a Rational Theory of Stellar Spectra," Journal for the History of Astronomy 21 (1990): 157-186
David H. DeVorkin, "A Fox Raiding the Hedgehogs: How Henry Norris Russell Got to Mt. Wilson," in The Earth, the Heavens, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, ed. Gregory A. Good (Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union: 1994)
David H. DeVorkin, "The Changing Place of Red Giant Stars in the Evolutionary Process," Journal for the History of Astronomy 37 (2006): 429-469
