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Spencer Jones, Harold

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Born Kensington, (London), England, 29 March 1890

Died Herstmonceux, (East Sussex), England, 3 November 1960

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  • Spencer Jones, H. (1914). “The Absorption of Light in Space.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 75: 4–16.

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  • — (1928). Catalogue of 4569 Stars from Observations with the Reversible Transit Circle Made at the Royal Observatory. London: H. M. Stationery Office.

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  • — (1932). “The Spectrum of Nova Pictoris (1925), 1931–32.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 92: 728–730.

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  • — (1935). Worlds without End. London: English Universities Press.

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  • — (1939). “The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 99: 541–558.

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  • — (1940). Life on Other Worlds. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

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  • — (1941). “The Solar Parallax and the Mass of the Moon from Observations of Eros at the Opposition of 1931.” Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society 76, no. 2: 11–66.

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  1. Utah Valley State College, Orem, UT, USA

    Keith Snedegar

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Snedegar, K. (2014). Spencer Jones, Harold. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1303

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