Henry Norris Russell (October 25, 1877 – February 18, 1957) was a US astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910).

He co-wrote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with Raymond Smith Dugan and John Quincy Stewart: Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy (Ginn & Co., Boston, 1926–27, 1938, 1945). This became the standard astronomy textbook for about two decades. There were two volumes: the first was The Solar System and the second was Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy.

Honors

• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1921)
• Henry Draper Medal (1922)
• Bruce Medal (1925)

• Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society
• Russell crater on the Moon
• Crater on Mars
• Asteroid 1762 Russell
• Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (with Ejnar Hertzsprung)

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Obituaries

• MNRAS 118 (1958) 311
• Obs 77 (1957) 67
• PASP 69 (1957) 223

1877 births | 1957 deaths | American astronomers

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