Reginald Lawson Waterfield (12 April 1900 – 10 June 1986 inWoolston) was a Britishhematologist known for his work inamateur astronomy, specialising inastrometry and the photography ofcomets. He was elected to theBritish Astronomical Association on 25 November 1914 and to theRoyal Astronomical Society on 10 November 1916.[1][2] Both elections being at the proposal ofW H Steavenson.[3][4] Waterfield served as Director of the British Astronomical Association Mars Section from 1931 to 1942 and its president from 1954 to 1956. For his work in astronomy he won the 1942Jackson-Gwilt Medal.[5] AfterWorld War II he had to use a wheelchair due topolio.[6] The minor planet1645 Waterfield is named jointly for him and his cousin William Francis Herschel Waterfield (1886-1933), who was also a member of the British Astronomical Association and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.[7][8]
He was the son ofReginald Waterfield, a prominent teacher and clergyman.
Waterfield wrote two books on astronomy:-
• A Hundred Years of Astronomy, Duckworth, 1938.
• The Revolving Heavens, 1942.
QJRAS vol 28 (1987), p. 544[9]
JBAA vol 97 (1987), p. 211[10]
BMJ vol 293 (1986), p. 214[11]
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