Richard Hawley Tucker
Richard Hawley Tucker, 1859-1952
Tucker graduated from Lehigh with Civil Engineering degree in 1879 and accepted the position of Assistant Astronomer at Dudley Observatory, New York. He then came back to Lehigh as an instructor in Mathematics and Astronomy from 1883-1884. Later he became the Astronomer at Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California. Some of Tucker's personal papers are housed in Special Collections.
To learn more about Richard Hawley Tucker, please visit University of California History Digital Archives at: http://dynaweb.oac.cdlib.org:8088/dynaweb/uchist/public/inmemoriam/inmemoriam1958/1867#X
from the website: "On March 31, 1952, death ended the long and fruitful career of Dr. Richard Hawley Tucker, Astronomer Emeritus in the Lick Observatory. He was one of the last of the great independent observers in the field of fundamental astronomy of precision."
Observed Places of 310 Ephemeris-Stars
by R. H. Tucker
The Astronomical Journal, v.17, no.24, July 19, 1897.