Edgar William Woolard (January 6, 1899 – June 17, 1978) was an American meteorologist, mathematician and planetary scientist.
[2] He resigned to join the faculty of George Washington University as a mathematics instructor.
[1] Woolard was granted his Ph.D. from the university with a thesis titled, On the Geometrical Theory of Halos, published in 1929.
[2] In 1945, he joined the staff of the Nautical Almanac Office at the United States Naval Observatory, where he served as assistant director.
[5] He contributed a chapter on celestial mechanics to the work Fundamental Formulas of Physics, published in 1960,[6] then in 1966 he collaborated with American astronomer Gerald M. Clemence to author the treatise Spherical Astronomy.