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Serene in sidereal time, above earth's battles, the astronomers of the world's belligerent nations have been communicating with each other regularly throughout World War II. This little-known fact was quietly revealed last week by famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley. His Harvard Observatory has served as the cosmic clearinghouse...
...long considered it one of the older galaxies; Sir James Jeans deduced from its shape that the Milky Way (which includes the Earth) is probably in an advanced stage of senility. But this week one of the world's most eminent authorities on galaxies, Harvard's Professor Harlow Shapley, suggested that Sir James had it all backward. According to Shapley's theory, the Milky Way is in the first, not the last, stage of evolution...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, will receive the Franklin Medal for 1945 in ceremonies at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on April...
...major astronomical loss was suffered by the Harvard Observatory in 1944, Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, revealed Sunday in his annual report...
Weekly seminars with faculty members supplement the curriculum, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, Harlow Shapley, professor of Astronomy, and Merle Fainsed, associate professor of Government, have already addressed the newsmen in Tuesday afternoon meetings. The follows have also met in bi-weekly dinners, with Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic, James Reston of the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and Llewellyn B. White of the Office of War Information attending...