Harry Edwin Wood
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Harry Edwin Wood (3 February 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an English astronomer, director of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, and discoverer of minor planets.<ref name="Obituary" /><ref name="springer" />
Wood was born in Manchester, graduating from Manchester University in 1902 with first class honours in physics, going on to gain an MSc in 1905. In 1906 he was appointed the Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescopes and which became known as the Union Observatory and later Republic Observatory. In July 1906, he established South Africa's first 24-hour weather forecasts through telegraph in the Transvaal.<ref name="S2A3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1909, he married Mary Ethel Greengrass, also a physics graduate of Manchester University. Wood served as the observatory's director from 1928 to 1941, succeeding Robert Innes. He also served as the president of the Astronomical Society of South Africa from 1929 to 1930.<ref name="Obituary" />
Wood is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 12 numbered asteroids during 1911–1932.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
He died in Mortimer, near Cradock, South Africa, in 1946. The asteroid 1660 Wood, discovered by his colleague Jacobus Bruwer at Johannesburg, is named in his honour (Template:Small).<ref name="springer" />
| 715 Transvaalia | 22 April 1911 | Template:Small |
| 758 Mancunia | 18 May 1912 | Template:Small |
| 790 Pretoria | 16 January 1912 | Template:Small |
| 982 Franklina | 21 May 1922 | Template:Small |
| 1032 Pafuri | 30 May 1924 | Template:Small |
| 1096 Reunerta | 21 July 1928 | Template:Small |
| 1241 Dysona | 4 March 1932 | Template:Small |
| 1305 Pongola | 19 July 1928 | Template:Small |
| 1595 Tanga | 19 June 1930 | Template:Small Template:Ref label |
| 1663 van den Bos | 4 August 1926 | Template:Small |
| 2193 Jackson | 18 May 1926 | Template:Small |
| 3300 McGlasson | 10 July 1928 | Template:Small |
| Co-discovery made with: Template:Note label C. Jackson | ||
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