Editing Henry Norris Russell (section)

==Life==
Russell was born on 25 October 1877, at [[Oyster Bay (town), New York|Oyster Bay, New York]], the son of Rev Alexander Gatherer Russell (1845-1911) and his wife, Eliza Hoxie Norris.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-04-27|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

After graduating from Princeton Preparatory School in 1893, he studied astronomy at [[Princeton University]], obtaining his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1897 and his doctorate in 1900, studying under [[Charles Augustus Young]].<ref name=DeVorkin/> From 1903 to 1905, he worked at the [[Cambridge Observatory]] with [[Arthur Robert Hinks]] as a research assistant of the [[Carnegie Institution of Washington|Carnegie Institution]] and came under the strong influence of [[George Darwin]].

He returned to Princeton to become an instructor in astronomy (1905–1908), assistant professor (1908–1911), professor (1911–1927) and research professor (1927–1947). He was also the director of the Princeton University Observatory from 1912 to 1947 where [[Charlotte Moore Sitterly]] helped him measure and calculate the properties of stars.

He died in [[Princeton, New Jersey]] on 18 February 1957 at the age of 79.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Vol. 1, Part 2 |last1=Mehra |first1=Jagdish |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |first2=Helmut |last2=Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |date=2001 |publisher=Springer  |page=686 |isbn=9780387951751 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tUVMSsC9wAC}}</ref> He is buried in [[Princeton Cemetery]].
[[File:Delegates to the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory.jpg|center|thumb|350x350px|Russell at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at [[Mount Wilson Observatory]], 1910]]