Background
Stetson, Harlan True was born on June 28, 1885 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry Allen and Jennie Sarah (Rowe) Stetson.
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Harlan True Stetson
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Bachelor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1908. Sc.M., Dartmouth College, 1910. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Chicago, 1915.
Career
Assistant in physics, Dartmouth, 1908-1910, instructor, 1911-1913. Research assistant Yerkes Observatory, summer 1909. Instructor physics and astronomy, Middlebury College, summers 1912-1913.
Instructor astronomy, Northwestern University, Dearborn Observatory, 1913-1914.
Studied at Yerkes Observatory and University of Chicago, 1914-1915. Instructor physics. Northwestern University, 1916.
Instructor astronomy, Harvard, 1916-1920, assistant professor, 1920-1929. Professor astronomy, head department and director Perkins Observatory, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1929-1934.
Harvard exchange professor to Carleton, Knox and Pomona colleges, 1929.
Research associate in geophysics, Harvard, 1933-1936, research associate, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1936-1949. Established Laboratory for Cosmic Terrestrial Research, Needham, Massachusetts, 1940.
Achievements
Membership
Served as instructor in navigation, recruiting service, United States Shipping Board, 1917. Temporary assistant, Smithsonian Institution, 1927, James Arthur lecturer, 1938. Member eclipse expeditions, California, 1923, Norway, 1927.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Executive Committee section Doctorate 1929-1940.
Member foreign, national and local scientific societies, active in committee work of societies, officer and director Clubs: Harvard (Boston).
Connections
Married Florence May Brigham, on September 4, 1912 (deceased, February 19, 1956). Children: Helen May, Florence Louise, Harold Brigham.
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Nationality
American