Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invitation of Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, the Twenty-First Annual meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers will be held Saturday at the Harvard Observatory. The organization, which includes over 300 members and is world-wide in extent, will have members present at the meeting from considerable portions of the United States...
...Oxford and Duke enticed from Harvard. Editor of Character & Personality is Dr. Robert Saudek, learned London interpreter of handwriting. Associate editor is Ernest Seeman, manager of Duke University Press and a persistent collaborator -with the late Aviation Pioneer Samuel Langley in experiments on flights of vultures; with Astronomer Harlow Shapley on light rays and energy of insects; with the late Thomas Alva Edison and Louise Guest Rice (Manhattan graphologist) in a system of character analysis...
...Observatory. One day was solemn. The seers of the heavens trooped before a big, partially completed building to watch & hear Professor Harlow Shapley, head of the Harvard Observatory, place some Pickering photographs in a copper box with some other documents. This, he said, he was doing to enlighten astronomers five centuries from now as to how far advanced the present-day astronomer...
...Harlow Shapley, astronomer, director of Harvard Observatory Sc.D...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, was elected to life membership in the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology along with Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. of the General Motors Corporation, Karl T. Compton, president of Tech announced yesterday...