Henry Norris Russell
Subtitle: dean of American astronomers
By: David H. DeVorkin.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
Subjects: Russell, Henry Norris, -- 1877-1957; Astronomers -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This book-length biography of the "Dean of American Astronomers" interweaves personal and scientific history to illuminate how Russell's privileged Presbyterian family background, his education at Princeton and Cambridge, and his personal inclinations and attachments both served and were at odds with his campaign to modernize astronomy.

This book will be of interest not only to astronomers and historians (particularly those interested in the emergence of astrophysics), but to anyone interested in the process of disciplinary change."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-478) and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious heritage --; title: Russell at Princeton --; title: Graduate years : Entering the profession --; title: Postdoctoral years at Camebridge --; title: Return to a new Princeton --; title: Parallaxes, pedagogy and the lines of the stars : Russell's first years on the Princeton faculty --; title: Building a life at Princeton --; title: Building a case for giants --; title: At the theoretical interface : Defending  his theory --; title: Shifting allegiance --; title: The Great War : Transformations --; title: Russell's turn to Mount Wilson --; title: Rationalizing stellar spectra --; title: "A reconnaissance of new territory --; title: Princeton astronomy in the 1920's --; title: Stellar evolution --; title: Binary stars and the formation of the solar system --; title: The royal road --; title: A summer place : The Lowell Observatory --; title: Influencing institutions and the profession.