Harold Alden
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Harold Lee Alden (January 10, 1890 – February 3, 1964) was an American astronomer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He worked for twenty years at the Yale Observatory in South Africa before returning to the University of Virginia. He is noted mainly for measuring stellar parallax, the proper motion of stars and long period variable stars. The crater Alden on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.
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- "Harold Lee Alden (obituary)". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 5: 291. March 1964. Bibcode 1964QJRAS...5..291..
- Harold Lee Alden
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