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  • Burns, K. (28 Feb. 1941). “Frank Craig Jordan.” Science 93: 201–202.

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  • Jordan, F. C. (1919). “The Color-Changes of Certain Variable Stars of Short Period.” Astrophysical Journal 50: 174–205.

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  • Sterken, C., E. F. Milone, and A. T. Young. (2011). “Photometric Precision and Accuracy.” In Astronomical Photometry: Past, Present, and Future, edited by E. F. Milone and C. Sterken, pp. 1–32. New York: Springer Verlag.

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Acknowledgments

It is a pleasure to thank Ms. Marianne Kasica, of the University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center, for providing essential references and details of Professor Jordan’s life and career. Important personal and professional details can be found in the obituary by Burns (1941) and in a testimonial by his contemporary Oliver J. Lee (1941).

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  1. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Eugene F. Milone

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Milone, E.F. (2014). Jordan, Frank Craig. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9307

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