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While recovering, Fox earned a master's degree at Kansas State and taught math at St. John ’ s Military School in Salina, Kansas.

Invited to Dartmouth College in 1901 by his cousin Ernest Fox Nichols, Fox soon departed for that school, where he earned a second B. S., this time in physics.

While at Dartmouth, Edwin Brant Frost persuaded Fox to pursue a career in astronomy, and in 1903 Fox became a Carnegie Research Assistant at Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago.

His primary interest at the observatory was in solar research.