Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Astronomy announces a series of three illustrated lectures on Cosmogony to be given by Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard College Observatory, Dr. Shapley, who came recently from Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, has made important contributions to the conception of the size of the stellar universe...
Less than a generation ago Simon Newcomb, one of America's foremost mathematical astronomers, estimated the diameter of the Galactic System to be not less than 7000 light years and later ventured to state that as an outside limit it could not likely exceed 20,000 light years. Dr. Shapley's researches have developed newer methods of determining stellar distances which leads him to the conclusion that the real dimensions of the Milky Way must exceed Newcomb's earlier estimate nearly fifty fold. Recent investigations in physics will have a very important bearing on certain cosmic problems. These swiftly changing...
...Harlow Shapley, an astronomer connected with the Mt. Wilson Solar Ovservatory at Pasadena, has been appointed Observer of the Harvard College Observatory, and will enter upon his new duties about March. His appointment is for one year. The position to which he has been appointed is a new one, and will give him an opportunity to take an active part in the work of the Observatory in cooperation with the Acting Director, Professor Solon L. Bailey, and the other members of the staff. Mr. Shapley took his doctor's degree at Princeton, and although he is now only slightly over...