Harry Edwin Wood
| 715 Transvaalia | 22 April 1911 |
| 758 Mancunia | 18 May 1912 |
| 790 Pretoria | 16 January 1912 |
| 982 Franklina | 21 May 1922 |
| 1032 Pafuri | 30 May 1924 |
| 1096 Reunerta | 21 July 1928 |
| 1241 Dysona | 4 March 1932 |
| 1305 Pongola | 19 July 1928 |
| 1595 Tanga [1] | 19 June 1930 |
| 1663 van den Bos | 4 August 1926 |
| 2193 Jackson | 18 May 1926 |
| 3300 McGlasson | 10 July 1928 |
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Harry Edwin Wood (3 February 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an English astronomer.
Wood was born in Manchester, England, graduating from Manchester University in 1902 with first class honours in physics, going on to gain an M.Sc 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. He served as the observatory's director from 1928 to 1941, succeeding Robert Innes.
In 1909, he married Mary Ethel Greengrass, also a physics graduate (1905) of Manchester University. They had no children.
He served as the president of the Astronomical Society of South Africa from 1929 to 1930.
Wood discovered a number (12) of asteroids himself.
The asteroid 1660 Wood is named for him.
External links
- http://www.saao.ac.za/assa/html/his-astr_-_wood_he.html
- Obituary (1947MNRAS.107...60.)
