Reginald Lawson Waterfield (1900–1986), eclipse chaser & comet photographer extraordinaire
‘Reggie’ Waterfield was the BAA’s 33rd president and its most prolific comet photographer from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was also an eclipse chaser and a leading haematologist. Part I covers Reggie’s earliest years, the three years he spent abroad in Baltimore, his gruelling eclipse expeditions and his friendships with W. H. Steavenson and others.
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