Word: shapley
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...Life and the Physical Universe" was the topic of Dr. Harlow Shapley's lecture at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory last night, where he gave the last of a series of talks on Cosmogony. His address dealt mainly with the question of the evolution of the stars. The evolution of the sun as one of the stars followed, and during this process came the birth of the planets of which the Earth...
This evening at eight o'clock in the main lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Dr. Harlow Shapley of the College Observatory will deliver his final lecture on "Gosmogony". He will have as his subject "Life and the Physical Universe". The lecture will be illustrated and is open to the public...
...Stars and Atoms" will be the subject of a lecture which will be given this evening at eight o'clock in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory by Dr. Harlow Shapley of the College Observatory. The lecture will be illustrated and will be open to all members of the University and their friends...
Last Monday night Dr. Shapley described the various types of astronomical bodies that exist in space and the methods used in determining their immense distances. Some recent photographs were thrown upon the screen showing great stretches of dark nebulae crowding the Milky...
...Shapley has recently returned from Mt. Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, where he has been doing some important research work. The results of his work have been the formation of newer methods of determining stellar distances which are far more accurate than the old methods and which can estimate distances very much greater than was possible with the systems used before, enabling him to disprove many of the theories of earlier astronomers...