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Paul William Hodge, astronomer, received his BS in physics at Yale University and his PhD in astronomy at Harvard University. He served as Physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, as Lecturer at Harvard, as a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at Caltech and Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories and as Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Among his administrative positions at the University were Associate Dean, The Graduate School, Associate Dean for Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Chairman, Department of Astronomy and Editor in Chief of the ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL. His publications include more than 500 papers, research articles and meeting presentations, 51 encyclopedia articles and 21 books.

Hodge’s main interests have been the nature and contents of galaxies. His discoveries and analyses of nearby galaxies have provided new understanding of their nature and their histories. Using large telescopes on mountaintops and in space, he was the discover or co-discoverer and cataloger of thousands of objects in other galaxies, including ionized hydrogen clouds, star clusters, galaxies, dark nebulae and variable stars. Best known are the Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters Hodge 301 and Hodge 11.

In 2001 the asteroid 14466, “hodge”, was named for him.