Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, during a brief excursion into entomology many years ago, discovered that the hotter an ant was, the faster it ran-in fact, that you could tell the temperature of an ant by its rate of movement...
Indications that the great stellar systems in space may possess outlying sparsely populated star "haloes" extending the system for beyond the size astronomers have generally assigned to them were reported by Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory speaking before a symposium of distinguished astronomers at the dedication of the McDonald Observatory's new 82-inch reflector yesterday...
Professor Shapley's talk followed and expanded an exposition by Dr. Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, of the attempt to disclose the Internal structure of the universe by work on the Milky Way. Bok is attempting to prove that the Milky Way is a rotating spiral nebula and has based his work on the ninety years research on external galaxies which the Observatory has conducted...
Professor Shapley spoke yesterday morning before a symposiumn of twenty leading astronomers, assembled at the dedication ceremonies of the new 82-inch reflector of the McDonald Observatory. Professor Shapley's paper dealt with the use of variable stars in studying structure and dimensions of stellar systems...
Probably these systems are not uncommon in the universe, but have been hidden from man through difficulty of observation, Professor Shapley said...