Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, spoke at the Dunster House dinner last night. Dr. Shapley discussed the probability of the explosion of the universe...
Some weeks ago the Dunster House menus bore the information that Professor Shapley would dine with the members and speak on a topic of interest in the Common Room after dinner. The genial astronomer fell ill and the visit had to be postponed--but the harm was already done...
...Harlow Shapley. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Observatory, will speak at a Dunster House dinner this evening...
...m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars in the sky. Directors Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Ob servatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory obtained remarkable spectra, said the star might be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed...
...Shapley believes that this star may be of the utmost importance on account of the powerful equipment new available at American observatories for spectroscopic analysis...