Word: shapley
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...thought to the billions of years older than the stones of the earth's crust, older, indeed, than the earth itself, and whose secrets are the same as the ultimate secrets of the origin and existence of the material universe, was exhibited last Wednesday night by Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory, in the second of a series of five lectures in the new Commerce Hall Auditorium of the College of the city of New York...
...Associates of Lowell House are Alfred North Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, Edward Kenard Rand '94, Professor of Latin, Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History, Archibald Thompson Davison '05, Professor of Music, Robert Pierpont Blake, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Widener Library, and Harlow Shapley. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...
...known systems of material bodies, from that of the atom which is a millionth of a millionth of an inch to the cloud of super-galaxies of a thousand million, trillion miles have been classified for the first time according to mass by Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of Harvard's Astronomical Observatory. The classification comes as a result of long research and careful investigation by Professor Shapley...
Professor Shapley is delivering a series of lectures at the College of the City of New York which will terminate on December 18. His general subject is "Flight from Chaos" and the series includes lectures on "The Microcosmos", "Concerning Planets and Their Fate", "The Ends of the World and Beyond", and "the Cosmoplasma...
Within the past year or two at the Harvard Observatory Professor Shapley has developed and published detailed classifications of galactic star clusters, of globular star clusters, and of external galaxies. In this series of lectures new classifications will be proposed for star clouds super-galaxies, multiple stars, planetary structures, systems of satellites, and meteoritic associations...