Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant made his first appearance at the Victory Meeting celebrations to introduce astronomer Harlow Shapley, speaking for the natural sciences. Professor Benjamin F. Wright, who has been guiding the crystallization of General Education plans, Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47, representing student opinion, Professor I. A. Richards, who will help to develop the new educational philosophy in his humanities course next year, and Provost Paul H. Buck, a specialist in the social sciences...
Professor Shapley, on the contrary, put the accent on science as the potential saving force for the world, and asked for scientific institutions with international participation, and entered a plea for a great science center building to house all University research projects. Provost Buck pointd out the functions required of social scientists...
...institution, revealed the Bulletin, will be known as the High Altitude Observatory of Harvard University and the University of Colorado, and will be expanded and operated under the direction of a scientific committee including Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics and manager of the Freemont Pass Station, and Walter Orr Noberts, resident superintendent of the station...
With Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Astronomy, as its principle catalyst, Boston's "Salute to the Atomic Age" flared up in the Hotel Bradford ballroom last night when Martin Deutsch, professor at M.I.T. exploded a few nuclei to add a realistic touch to the proceedings. Featured on the program besides Deutsch and Shapley were Rear Admiral H.G. Bowen, Rev. Edward Conway, and Louis Ridenour, professor at M.I.T...
Sharing the floor with Shapley and other scientists, Senator Brien McMahen, chairman of the Senate Atomic Energy Committee, will speak on "Legislative Control of the Atomic Bomb." The entire program, which includes a playlet on push button atomic warfare, will emphasize civilian use and control of atomic energy...