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During his time in Chile, Huffer's interest in astronomy grew, which would determine the path of his future career. After five years he returned to the States where he accepted a position as an assistant to
Stebbins. As a graduate student, he taught a newly formed undergraduate course on astronomy,
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from 1946 until 1955. This involved much travel and planning for meetings. Stebbins retired from the university in 1948, and the same year Huffer became Full
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in 1928 that he met
Elizabeth Hart, who also held a master's degree in mathematics. The two shared an interest in golf, and a game became their first date. The two were married, and would have sons John Charles, born 1929, and James Morse, born 1934.
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to determine how much their blue wavelengths became more attenuated with distance. A relationship was discovered between the position of the stars with respect to the Milky Way and the amount of reddening. Once the United States entered
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Washburn, his pregnant wife died due to kidney failure, leaving him to raise their daughter alone. Huffer decided to focus himself on his work and studies. He received his Ph.D. in 1926 with a thesis titled,
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Liebl, David S.; Fluke, Christopher (December 2004), "Investigations of the interstellar medium at
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Charles Huffer and his wife Nellie Morse. His grandfather, Frank Lyford Morse, was a professor of mathematics at
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In 1973, Albion College presented him a Distinguished Alumni Award. A memorial sundial at
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Huffer, Charles Morse; Trinklein, Frederick E.; Bunge, Mark (1967),
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DeVorkin, David; Huffer, Charles; Huffer, Elizabeth (July 8, 1977),
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with previous collaborator F. E. Trinklein plus Mark Bunge of
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to navy personnel and worked as a mathematician at the
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