- Harry Edwin Wood
Harry Edwin Wood (
February 3 1881 –February 27 1946 ) was aSouth Africa nastronomer .Born in
Manchester ,England , in 1906 he was appointed Chief Assistant at theTransvaal Meteorological Observatory , which soon acquiredtelescope s and became known as theUnion Observatory . He served as its director from 1928 to 1941, succeedingRobert Innes .He married but had no children.
He served as president of the
Astronomical Society of South Africa from 1929 to 1930.Wood discovered a number of
asteroid s.The asteroid
1660 Wood is named after him.External links
* http://www.saao.ac.za/assa/html/his-astr_-_wood_he.html
* [http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1947MNRAS.107...60. Obituary] (1947MNRAS.107...60.)
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