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HARRY EDWIN WOOD was born in Manchester on February 1881, and died on February 27, 1946, at Mortimer, Cape Province, a few days after a heart attack. He studied physics at Manchester, S Arthur Eddington being one of his fellow students, and boecame an assistant to Sir Arthur Schuster. Before going to South Africa in 1906 to take up his duties as chief assistant at the former Transvaal Meteorological Observatory (now the Union Observatory) under R. T. A. Innes, he prepared himself by a period of work at the British Meteorological Office.
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VAN DEN BOS, W. Dr. H. E. Wood. Nature 158, 17–18 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158017b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158017b0