美国物理学和天文学教授、范德比尔特大学名誉退休教授、戴尔天文台前台长道格拉斯·斯高特·霍尔(Douglas Scott Hall)于2013年3月16日因病去世,终年72岁。霍尔是一位杰出的天文学家和科学家,曾做出多项重大发现。他和他的学生研究者是最先测量一对年轻双星的质量及直径者,后来又通过观 Douglas Scott Hall, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University and honorary retired professor at Vanderbilt University, died at the age of 72, on March 16, 2013, Douglas Scott Hall, the former director of the Dell Observatory. Hall is a distinguished astronomer and scientist who has made a number of major discoveries. He and his student researchers are the first to measure the mass and diameter of a pair of young binaries, and later through the concept