Henry Norris Russell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780691049182
Subjects: Biography: general; History of science; Popular astronomy; Biography/Autobiography; Astronomy (General); Science; Biography / Autobiography; United States; USA; Russell, Henry Norris,; Astronomy - General; Scientists - General; Astronomy and Cosmology; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Physics; Science / Astronomy; 1877-1957; Astronomers; Biography
First sentence: Working at home on a November day in 1934, Henry Norris Russell, chair of Princeton University's Department of Astronomy and director of its Halsted Observatory, wrote to an inquirer about heaven and the immortality of the soul.