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Charles EDWARD ST. JOHN, who died on April 26 of pneumonia after a short illness, was one of the most lovable of men. Born on March 15, 1857, at Allen, Michigan, he graduated at the Michigan State University and studied afterwards at Harvard and Berlin. He was an instructor in physics at the Michigan State University and in 1897 became assistant professor, and later professor, of physics and astronomy at Oberlin College, and later dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In the midst of these busy duties he found time in the summer to work at the Yerkes Observatory with Nichols on the measurement of radiation from the stars. At forty-nine years of age he joined Hale at the Mount Wilson Observatory and remained on the staff there until 1929 when he retired. He was made a research associate in 1930 and continued actively working, despite failing health, until the end, his last piece of work (left unfinished) being a general discussion of the problem of solar rotation.
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Dr. C. E. St. John. Nature 136, 12–13 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136012a0
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