| 词条 | Harry Edwin Wood |
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Wood was born in Manchester, graduating from Manchester University in 1902 with first class honours in physics, going on to gain an M.Sc in 1905. In 1906 he was appointed the Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescopes and which became known as the Union Observatory and later Republic Observatory. In 1909, he married Mary Ethel Greengrass, also a physics graduate of Manchester University. Wood served as the observatory's director from 1928 to 1941, succeeding Robert Innes. He also served as the president of the Astronomical Society of South Africa from 1929 to 1930.[2] Wood is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 12 numbered asteroids during 1911–1932. He died in Mortimer, near Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1946. The asteroid 1660 Wood, discovered by his colleague Jacobus Bruwer at Johannesburg, is named in his honor ({{small|M.P.C. 3297}}).[3] See also
References1. ^1 2 {{cite book |title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1660) Wood |last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D. |publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg |page = 132 |date = 2007 |isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3 |doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1661 |chapter = (1660) Wood }} [1][2]2. ^1 2 {{Cite journal |date = December 1946 |title = Obituary Notices :- Wood, Harry Edwin |url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=1947MNRAS.107...60. |journal = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume = 107 |page = 60 |bibcode = 1947MNRAS.107...60. |doi = 10.1093/mnras/107.1.60 |access-date= 20 July 2016}} }} External links
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