Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, will receive the Franklin Medal for 1945 in ceremonies at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on April...
...major astronomical loss was suffered by the Harvard Observatory in 1944, Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, revealed Sunday in his annual report...
...despite the war, Professor Shapley declared, Harvard continued its worldwide astronomical contacts. As a special wartime service, a monthly survey of astronomical news, gathered with great difficulty from throughout the world, was distributed to 100 American astronomers away on war duty, and also to many astronomers of other countries...
Weekly seminars with faculty members supplement the curriculum, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, Harlow Shapley, professor of Astronomy, and Merle Fainsed, associate professor of Government, have already addressed the newsmen in Tuesday afternoon meetings. The follows have also met in bi-weekly dinners, with Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic, James Reston of the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and Llewellyn B. White of the Office of War Information attending...
...recognition of helping to advance scientific cooperation between the United States and Mexico, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Mexican Government...