Richard Hawley Tucker

Richard Hawley Tucker ( born October 29, 1859 in Wiscasset, Maine, † March 31, 1952 in Palo Alto, California ) was an American astronomer.

Tucker studied at Lehigh University engineering sciences, but soon discovered his interest in astronomy. After graduating in 1879, he took a job as an assistant at the Dudley Observatory. In 1883 he returned as a lecturer in mathematics and astronomy at Lehigh University. A year later, he received an offer from the Argentine National Observatory to work on a study of the southern sky. He remained there for nine years, and moved in 1893 to the Lick Observatory. There he dealt with the precise measurement of star positions.

In 1908, he traveled as a participant in an expedition to San Luis in Argentina. The measurements of the positions of stars in the southern sky part, to which he contributed himself over 20,000 made ​​there, were included in the catalog of the Dudley Observatory.

After working in Argentina, he returned to the Lick Observatory, and remained there until his retirement in 1926.

Tucker published 53 scientific articles during his career.

The lunar crater Tucker was named after him.