John Quincy Stewart

John Quincy Stewart ( born September 10, 1894 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, † March 19, 1972 in Cottonwood, Arizona) was an American astrophysicist.

Stewart graduated to Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University in 1919 and worked in the field of astrophysics until his retirement in 1963.

He was co-author of Raymond Smith Dugan and Henry Norris Russell of the influential two -volume textbook, A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy ( Ginn & Co., Boston, 1926-27, 1938, 1945), which in for two decades as the standard work on astronomy the USA.

The lunar crater Stewart is named after him.