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Harry Hemley Plaskett

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His time at Oxford was interrupted by war service: from 1939 to 1940, he was an anti-aircraft officer, and from 1940 to 1944 he worked on experimental navigation for the
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He retired from Oxford in 1960, becoming a Professor Emeritus of the university, but remained active in astronomical research almost until the end of his life.
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He had married in 1921 Edith Alice Smith, with whom he had two children, Barbara and John Stanley. They were to remain married until his death in 1980.
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Millman, P.M. (1980). "Obituary - Plaskett, Harry-Hemley 1893-1980".
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at the University of Oxford. In May, 1936 he was elected a
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Adams, M.G. (1980). "Obituary - Plaskett, Harry-Hemley".
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on July 5, 1893. His parents were Rebecca Hemley and
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FRS
solar physics
astronomical spectroscopy
spectrophotometry
Savilian Professor of Astronomy
University of Oxford
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Toronto
Ontario
John Stanley Plaskett
University of Toronto
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
Gold Medal
Toronto
Canadian Corps
Alfred Fowler
Imperial College
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
Victoria
Harvard University
H. H. Turner
Savilian Professor of Astronomy
Fellow of the Royal Society
Royal Astronomical Society
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Walter Stibbs
2905 Plaskett
Edward Bowell
McCrea, W. H.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

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