Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russel (1877 - 1957) was a American Astronome . He studied with the Université of Princeton, where he became professor of Astronomie in 1905 then directing of the observatory in 1911. With Ejnar Hertzsprung, it developed the Diagramme of Hertzsprung-Russell (1910).

He was prize winner in 1925 of the Prix Rumford for his work on the stellar Rayonnement S.

Honorary distinctions

Rewards Éponyme
  • Senior lectureship Henry Norris Russell of the American company of astronomy
  • the crater Russell on the the Moon
  • the crater Russell on Mars
  • the Asteroid (1762) Russell
  • the diagram of Hertzsprung-Russell (with Ejnar Hertzsprung)

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