Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory on the origin of the solar system was one of the subjects discussed in a lecture given by Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, at a meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers last Saturday in the Faculty Club...
Frederick S. Coolidge '40, John H. Lindstrom 1G., Allen H. Shapley '40, Robert P. Sorlien...
Harvard still boasts many a faculty giant like the Law School's Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Physicist Percy Williams Bridgman, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, but in time they must yield and withdraw as Economist Frank William Taussig and Shakespearean George Lyman Kittredge did this year (TIME, Feb. 17). To replace them. President Conant admits, will be harder now that the growth of State Universities has pushed Harvard from its "natural pre-eminence," made it uncertain that a promising young scholar will heed the once undeniable "call" from Cambridge...
About 300 stars in the sky are known as Cepheid variables. Some internal pulse causes them to vary in brightness, in cycles of a few days or a few weeks. Most of them are hot, yellow, supergiants. Harlow Shapley at Mount Wilson worked out a relation between their luminosities and variation periods which yielded clues to shape and dimensions of the whole Milky Way (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last week Dr. Shapley, now director of Harvard Observatory, described the first known star to become a Cepheid while under observation. Ten years ago it began to pulse every two weeks...
...meetings will be led by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory. In one on cosmogony he will give a series of lectures on the physical universe and the relation of the earth, solar system, and galaxy to the rest of the cosmos. The other colloquium will concern hollow squares, consisting of informal discussions of various observational and theoretical investigations...