Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quest of Comets," Dr. F. L. Whipple: "Unravelling Stellar Secrets". Dr. A. J. Cannon: "The Insides of Stars". Dr. Payne: "The Worlds of Gas," Dr. R. J. Hok. Wilson Teaching Fellow: "The Chemistry of Interstellar Space." V. B. Andrews '2b instructor in Astronomy: and "The Chemistry of Evolution." Harlew Shapley. Patne Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory. The last time that such a series of talks was given over the air was in 1927 when the College took open itself the responsibility to carry out a program without the sponsorship of an outside society. The lectures...
...meeting of the Society of Arts and Sciences in New York last night Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, was awarded the Society's gold medal for distinction in science. After the dinner Shapley made an acceptance speech in which he dealt with some of the many questions in cosmogony that are now puzzling scientists...
...talk Shapley pointed out that three things among the many that confuse astronomers are (1) The origin, nature, and persistence of Cosmic meteors, appearing in the earth's atmosphere, coming from interstellar space and wholly independent of the solar system; (2) The existence of vagabond stars, intergalactic tramps, at the borders of the galaxy; and (3) The groupings and streams of the galaxies throughout the metagalactic structure, where we should expect uniform individual distribution...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, will deliver the principal address at the National convention of the Society of Sigma Xi, national honorary society for scientific research, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Wednesday, December 28. The Harvard chapter will send a large delegation to the convention...
...title of Shapley's lecture will be "Fact and Fancy in Cosmogony," and will deal with new theories of astronomical and physical investigation, with particular attention to relativity. Preceding the meeting of Sigma Xi, which is the scientific counterpart of Phi Beta Kappa, the America Association for the Advancement of Science will meet on December 27, at Atlantic City. K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, is secretary of this group. The session will be featured by a symposium on the late Pleistocene and recent changes of level along the North Atlantic Coast...