Henry Norris Russell

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American astronomer academic astronomer astrophysicist

Henry Norris Russell was an influential American astronomer best known for co-developing the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, a fundamental tool in stellar astrophysics.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American astronomer → academic → astronomer → astrophysicist →
academicDegree	PhD in astronomy →
awardReceived	Bruce Medal → Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society → Henry Draper Medal → Janssen Medal →
birthDate	1877-10-25 →
birthPlace	Oyster Bay, New York, United States →
coDeveloperOf	Hertzsprung–Russell diagram →
collaboratedWith	Ejnar Hertzsprung →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1957-02-18 →
deathPlace	Princeton, New Jersey, United States →
educatedAt	Princeton University →
employer	Princeton University →
era	20th-century astronomy →
familyName	Russell →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → astrophysics →
fullName	Henry Norris Russell →
givenName	Henry →
hasAcademicAdvisor	Charles Augustus Young →
hasHonorificName	Asteroid 1762 Russell → Russell lunar crater →
influenced	stellar astrophysics → theory of stellar evolution →
knownFor	Hertzsprung–Russell diagram → Russell–Saunders coupling → stellar classification → work on binary stars →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Philosophical Society → National Academy of Sciences → Royal Astronomical Society →
notableStudent	Harlow Shapley → Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar →
notableWork	On the Relations between the Spectra and Other Characteristics of the Stars → The Solar System and Its Origin →
positionHeld	director of the Princeton University Observatory → professor of astronomy at Princeton University →
residence	Princeton, New Jersey, United States →
sexOrGender	male →
studied	binary star systems → stellar spectra →
workLocation	Princeton, New Jersey, United States →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship → Hertzsprung–Russell diagram →	namedAfter
Henry Norris Russell →	fullName