John Quincy Stewart

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John Quincy Stewart (born September 10, 1894 in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , † March 19, 1972 in Cottonwood , Arizona ) was an American astrophysicist .

Stewart graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1919 , where he worked in the field of astrophysics until his retirement in 1963 . In 1925 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

He was co-author of Raymond Smith Dugan and Henry Norris Russell of the influential two-volume textbook A Revision of Young ’s Manual of Astronomy (Ginn & Co., Boston, 1926–27, 1938, 1945), which was the standard work of the Astronomy in the US was made.

The lunar crater Stewart is named after him.

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