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Monday, November 8 at 8 p.m., "A Trip to the 200-inch Telescope," by Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin...
...addition to Professor Shapley, Professor Menzel, and Associate Director Bok; Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Astronomer; Fred L. Whipple, associate professor of Astronomy; and Walter O. Roberts, superintendent of the High Altitude Observatory at Climax, Colorado will serve on the advisory council...
...first will be held June 30 at 8 o'clock in the observatory library, when Dr. G. P. Gaposchkin will speak on "The Present Status of Theories of Stollar Evolution." On July 7 Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paino Professor of Practical Astronomy, will conduct a hollow square conference and the following week a special colloquium is planned to commemorate the work of Dr. A. B. Wyso. Hollow Square conferences will be held on July 21 and August 4, and on July 28 Dr. F. L. Whipple will speak on "Densities and Temperatures in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere." Plans...
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, for a study of the physical nature of variable stars...
...Gaposchkin further explained that what appear to be single stars, even with the most powerful telescopes, are usually a "family" of the great flery masses which figuratively stand toe-to-toe and spin about each other at the dizzy rate of four revolutions a day. Only by the frequent eclipses which cause varying amounts of light, can astronomers detect these bodies...