Harry Edwin Wood
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Harry Edwin Wood
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Harry Edwin Wood was an English astronomer, director of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, and discoverer of minor planets. Wood was born in Manchester, graduating from Manchester University in 1902 with first class honours in physics, going on to gain an MSc in 1905. In 1906 he was appointed the Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescopes and which became known as the Union Observatory and later Republic Observatory. In July 1906, he establish
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British-South African astronomer (1881–1946)
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