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