Word: prager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrival of Dr. Richard Prager, distinguished European astronomer, focuses attention on the work being done in the Observatory on the little explored field of variable stars. In a report earlier this year before the Philadelphia Philosophical Society, Observatory officials announced the advances made over a six month period and indicated the immense possibilities for further work...
...Richard Prager, world famous German cataloguer of variable stars, arrived here yesterday morning aboard the S. S. Samaria to take his position in the research department of the Observatory, where he will work with Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...
Although he has just left his homeland under the quota, Prager did not wish to make any statement concerning conditions there since his family remains behind. Met at the dock by Dr. Cecilia Gaposchkin and her husband of the Astronomy Department, he was taken to their home for the day pending the making of definite plans...
...Prager, who was stationed until recently at the Berlin-Babelsberg Observatory, is an outstanding bibliographer in the large field of variable stars and was responsible for many years for naming variable stars and for recording them in the annual catalogue, Dr. Shapley said...
...observatory Dr. Prager will join the Milton Bureau, an organization subsidized by the Milton Fund of the University, and the members of which are analyzing the light variations of the two or three thousand brightest variable stars and will before the conclusion of their study amass more than a million observations and record the behavior of these stars on photographs taken since...