Word: gaposchkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Institute has been recording Emmanuel's Comparative Literature 102, "The Tragic Sense in Modern Literature"; Hans Morgenthau's Government 180, "Principles of International Politics"; and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's Astronomy 1a, "The Solar System and Its Evolution...
...under the threat that no new edition of his work be published by Blakiston and that he would also refuse any further royalties for his "Earth, Moon and Planets." How, furthermore, can the statement of Professor Shapley be squared with the fact that, at his initiative, Mrs. Cecllia Payne-Gaposchkin, another assistant of his," wrote "Nonsense, Dr. Velikovsky" for the "Reporter," and before its publication circulated her article from the Harvard Observatory in mimeographed form among many scientific reviewers of daily and weekly publications in this country at a time when "World in Collision" was not yet published? Mrs. Payne...
...spite of the high-sounding advance testimonials that Worlds in Collision has picked up, few experts cared to waste much time on the Velikovsky theory. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin of the Harvard College Observatory pointed out that there are records of detailed observations of Venus from at least 500 years before the Exodus. Said Dr. David Delo, executive director of the American Geological Institute: "Velikovsky appears to be bypassing all the sound, scientific observations of a multitude of geologists...