Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giant star clusters first found by the Blue Hills Observatory last spring have at last been identified, with great importance to astronomical research, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Blue Hills Observatory, revealed in Fort Davis, Texas, yesterday...
Professor Shapley said astronomers attach much importance to the fact that the objects form an "Intermediate" type, midway between the ordinary spheroidal galaxy and the ordinary globular cluster...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard Observatory, will set an chairman of a scientific conference to be held today in Washington, D. C. on the question of "Princeton Measurement of Solar Radium...
...Richard Prager, world famous German cataloguer of variable stars, arrived here yesterday morning aboard the S. S. Samaria to take his position in the research department of the Observatory, where he will work with Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...
...Prager, who was stationed until recently at the Berlin-Babelsberg Observatory, is an outstanding bibliographer in the large field of variable stars and was responsible for many years for naming variable stars and for recording them in the annual catalogue, Dr. Shapley said...