Paul William Hodge
Born(1934-11-08)November 8, 1934
DiedNovember 10, 2019(2019-11-10) (aged 85)
EducationB.S. physics
Ph.D. astronomy
Alma materYale University
Harvard University
Known forStellar populations of galaxies; editor-in-chief Astronomical Journal
ChildrenGordon, Erik, and Sandi[1]
Parent(s)Paul and Frances[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California at Berkeley
University of Washington

Paul W. Hodge ((1934-11-08)November 8, 1934 - (2019-11-10)November 10, 2019) was an American astronomer whose principal area of research was the stellar populations of galaxies.

Education & Employment

Born in Seattle, Washington on November 8, 1934, Hodge grew up in the neighboring town of Snohomish. As a youth, his interests were primarily in physics, astronomy and music. He obtained a BS degree in physics at Yale University in 1956 and a PhD degree in astronomy at Harvard University in 1960. He was a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories before joining the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1961. He moved to the University of Washington in 1965, where he remained until 2006, and became Professor Emeritus of Astronomy. Between 1984 and 2004 he was the Editor in Chief of the Astronomical Journal.

Research

Hodge was author or co-author of over 550 research papers and 28 books. He also talked at professional meetings. Most of the papers are concerned with the extragalactic universe, especially nearby galaxies, their distances and their histories.[2][3][4] Works on the Magellanic Clouds, carried out at observatories in South Africa, Australia and Chile, included a study of young stellar associations, of which he and his students published the first catalog.[5] With colleague Frances Woodworth Wright, he published two widely used atlases of the Magellanic Clouds.[6][7] He was the first to study the structure of the Local Group dwarf galaxies[8] and carried out the first large-scale survey of star-forming regions (HII regions) in spiral galaxies, in which he and his students mapped a total of 13011 of these objects.[9] He and his former student, K. Krienke, discovered 652 star clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).[10]

In the early years of his career he also did pioneering work on the collection of interplanetary dust from the upper atmosphere. With his graduate student, Donald Brownlee, he was the first to use high-altitude aircraft (e. g., B52s and U2s) to collect candidate meteoritic dust particles.[11] Together, they also investigated meteoritic dust from deep sea sediments and from the Moon. In related research, he collected and studied meteoritic particles in the soil surrounding terrestrial meteorite craters.[12]

A long-term mountain enthusiast, Hodge hiked extensively in the Cascade Mountains and published six books related to mountains and mountain trails. In 2001, the asteroid 14466 was named "Hodge" in his honor.

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References

  1. ^ a b Krisciunas, Kevin (March 2020). "Obituary: Paul W. Hodge (1934-2019)". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 52 (2): 0301. Bibcode:2020BAAS...52.0301K. doi:10.3847/25c2cfeb.00e8b40d. S2CID 216225928. 0301.
  2. ^ Hodge, Paul W. (1986). Galaxies. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674498327.
  3. ^ Hodge, Paul W. (1981). "The extragalactic distance scale". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 19: 357–372. Bibcode:1981ARA&A..19..357H. doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.19.090181.002041.
  4. ^ Hodge, Paul (1989). "Populations in Local Group galaxies". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 27: 139–198. Bibcode:1989ARA&A..27..139H. doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.27.090189.001035.
  5. ^ Hodge, Paul W.; Lucke, Peter B. (October 1970). "The System of Stellar Associations of the Large Magellanic Cloud". Astronomical Journal. 75: 933. Bibcode:1970AJ.....75..933H. doi:10.1086/111041.
  6. ^ Hodge, Paul W.; Wright, Frances W. (1967). The Large Magellanic Cloud. Smithsonian Press. ISBN 9780598053343.
  7. ^ Hodge, Paul W.; Wright, Frances W. (1977). The Small Magellanic Cloud. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295953878.
  8. ^ Hodge, Paul W. (1971). "Dwarf Galaxies". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 9: 35. Bibcode:1971ARA&A...9...35H. doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.09.090171.000343.
  9. ^ Hodge, P. W.; Kennicutt, R. C., Jr. (March 1983). "An atlas of HII regions in 125 galaxies". Astronomical Journal. 88: 296–328. Bibcode:1983AJ.....88..296H. doi:10.1086/113318.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Hodge, Paul (March 9, 2013). The Andromeda Galaxy. Springer Netherlands. ISBN 9789401580564.
  11. ^ Hodge, Paul W. (1981). Interplanetary dust. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. ISBN 9780677036205.
  12. ^ Hodge, Paul William (August 4, 1994). Meteorite craters and impact structures of the earth. Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 9780521360920.

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