TABLE OF CONTENTS: PREFACE xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
CHAPTER 1 Religious Heritage 3
CHAPTER 2 Russell at Princeton 21
CHAPTER 3 Graduate Years: Entering the Profession 39
CHAPTER 4 Postdoctoral Years at Cambridge 51
CHAPTER 5 Return to a New Princeton 68
CHAPTER 6 Parallaxes, Pedagogy, and the Lives of the Stars:
Russell's First Years on the Princeton Faculty 79
CHAPTER 7 Building a Life at Princeton 98
CHAPTER 8 Building a Case for Giants 106
CHAPTER 9 At the Theoretical Interface:
Defending His Theory 121
CHAPTER 10 Shifting Allegiance 138
CHAPTER 11 The Great War: Transformations 153
CHAPTER 12 Russell's Turn to Mount Wilson 166
CHAPTER 13 Rationalizing Stellar Spectra 177
CHAPTER 14 "A Reconnaissance of New Territory" 199
CHAPTER 15 Princeton Astronomy in the 1920s 221
CHAPTER 16 Stellar Evolution 236
CHAPTER 17 Binary Stars and the Formation
of the Solar System 257
CHAPTER 18 The Royal Road 273
CHAPTER 19 A Summer Place: The Lowell Observatory 292
CHAPTER 20 Influencing Institutions and
the Profession 309
CHAPTER 21 Astronomical Isolationism 327
CHAPTER 22 Searching for a Replacement 339
CHAPTER 23 Russell's Universe 361
ABBREVIATIONS AND ARCHIVAL SOURCES 373
NOTES 377
GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS 449
BIBLIOGRAPHY 451
INDEX 479
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