Awards & Winners

Henry Norris Russell

Date of Birth 25-October-1877
Place of Birth Town of Oyster Bay
(Nassau County, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Astronomer
Henry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram. In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed Russell–Saunders coupling which is also known as LS coupling.

Awards by Henry Norris Russell

Check all the awards nominated and won by Henry Norris Russell.

1925


Rumford Prize
(For his research in stellar radiation.)
Bruce Medal

1922


Henry Draper Medal
(For his remarkably valuable contributions to knowledge of the order of stellar evolution.)