Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discovery by the Harvard Observatory in South Africa of the second new comet within a few weeks was reported yesterday by Professor Harlow Shapley...
...Shapley stated that a telegram from the South African station credited M.J. Bester with making the discovery According to the cablegram from J. S. Paraskevopoulos, superintendent of the Observatory location of the new comet is seven hours, 37 minutes and its declination is 75 degrees south. Its magnitude is 7.5 making it visible through a telescope...
...Harlow Shapley, Director of the College Observatory, was named late Sunday as one of the sponsors of a new committee on loyalty problems set up by the Federation of American Scientists...
Other sponsors listed is addition to Shapley included Victor Weisekopf of M.I.T. and Hudson Hoagland of the Worcester Foundation...
Last spring, Professor Shapley, who is also honorary chairman of the Massachusetts Progressive Citizens of America, turned down a bid by that organization to run for governor on the Wallace ticket. He claimed such a candidacy "would obstruct whatever effectiveness I may have in promoting civil liberties and progressive legislation...