Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard Observatory, will speak in London on "Some Structural Features of the Metagalaxy...
...lecture, which is part of the Darwin Lectureship, will be delivered in Burlington House at the time when Dr. Shapley is awarded the gold medal of the London Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the galaxy. Previous recipients of the medal were Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Dr. Albert Einstein...
Awarded. To Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard astronomer: the London Royal Astronomical Society's gold medal, England's highest astronomical award. Other winners: Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington...
...money given to the Astronomical Observatory, known as the Elizabeth E. Bemis Fund, will be used in aiding the survey which is being made of the heavens out to the distance of one hundred million light years under the supervision of Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Observatory. This task is being carried on at the South African Observatory and the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, and was started more than ten years...
Other arts & sciences aces: Harlow Shapley, 48 (astronomy), Charles Hall Grandgent, 71 (Romance languages), Percy Williams Bridgman, 51 (physics), Kirtley Fletcher Mather, 45 (geology), last week named director of the Summer School...