Henry Smith Pritchett (April 16 1857 – August 28 1939) was a U.S. astronomer and educator.

He was assistant astronomer at the US Naval Observatory from 1878 to 1880. In 1880 he went to Morrison Observatory in Glasgow, Missouri, where his father Carl Waller Pritchett was director. From 1883 to 1897 he was professor of astronomy at Washington University in St. Louis.

He was Superintendent of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1897 to 1900. He served as the president of MIT between 1900 and 1906. He was president of the Carnegie Foundation from 1906 until he retired in 1930.

External links

• NOAA biography

Obituary

• PASP 51 (1939) 304