Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. To Dr. Harlow Shapley, astronomer, director of Harvard Observatory: the (British) Royal Astronomical Society's gold medal*, for studies on the structure and dimensions of the galactic system (conglomerations of stars, such as the Milky...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of practical astronomy, and director of the Harvard College Observatory, received yesterday the gold medal of the London Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the galaxy. England has no higher honor for astronomers than this reward which Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Dr. Albert Einstein have won in the past...
...Shapley has advanced the idea that the sun, moon, and other planets all came to life at once from an eddy swirling in the gas that was the parent of the "Milky Way." According to that thesis, the whole solar system is made up of fragments of the gas-like matter ejected from that huge shining mass of material which later was condensed into those countless stars we view as our "Milky Way." This, for Dr. Shapley, is just one of a series of similar galaxies in space and is of no particular importance...
...Disordered Universe." An outstanding player in astronomy's game of juggling and revising figures is tousle-haired Director Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory. To him last week the American Academy of Arts & Sciences presented its Rumford Medal for research in physics. Dr. Shapley responded with a talk on "The Anatomy of a Disordered Universe...
...sensitive apparatus." Albert Einstein, at Princeton's Insti tute for Advanced Study, foresaw no need of revising his relativity theory, spoke of deformations in the earth's surface, said the Pease-Pearson results should be "most interesting from a geophysics standpoint." Harvard Observatory's Director Harlow Shapley thought the results were due entirely to the relationship of earth, sun and moon movements, pointed out that the 14¾-day fluctuation was roughly equal to half a lunar cycle and the annual fluctuation to the earth's revolution round the sun. From nearby Caltech, Dr. Robert Andrews...