Albert Edward Whitford (October 22, 1905 – March 28, 2002) was an American physicist and astronomer.
[5] He decided to become an astronomer and spent two years at Caltech and Mount Wilson Observatory as a postdoctoral fellow.
The Whitford reddening curve, quantifying the interstellar absorption of light, was important in the mapping of the distribution of stars in the Milky Way.
[9] In 1986, Whitford received the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship[10] and in 1996 he was awarded the Bruce Medal.
[12] On October 23, 1937, Whitford married Eleanor Bell Whitelaw in Chicago, Illinois.