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Professors Bart J. Bok and Harlow Shapley are trying to map this huge disc-shaped "island universe," which includes the earth and every star that the naked eye can see. Both of them are measuring the distance to far-away suns, to determine their relative positions in the galaxy and thus the shape of the galaxy itself...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Scientists Take Temperatures of Sun's Corona, Yellowstone's Geysers | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

...Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, and several members of the Astronomy Department will speak at the meeting, which is sponsored by the amateur Bond Astronomical Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symposium Fetes Campbell's 50th Year at College | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

...first, the show might easily have been mistaken for an election rally for Henry Wallace, where the party line was pushed, but not too obviously. In fact, the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, which sponsored the conference, had also espoused Wallace's candidacy. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard astronomer and chairman of N.C.A.S.P., a veteran advocate of party-line causes, was the conference chairman. Quietly working around him was the same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tumult at the Waldorf | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

cussion of Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, whom he describes as "one of the most distinguished (persons) ever enlisted in a Communist front cause." Griffin charged Shapley of having connections with over a dozen "front groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tribune Renews Series On Harvard 'Radicals' | 4/2/1949 | See Source »

...local committee of the Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions, which Harvard Observatory Director Harlow Shapley heads, had planned a meeting at Yale tomorrow night to be addressed by the Soviet composer and fellow delegates to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale President Bars Shostakovich Talk | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

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