Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Observatory and president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has accepted chairmanship of a national committee formed to facilitate plans for commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Nicholas Copernieus, great Polish astronomer, the Keseluszke Foundation has announced...
Says famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley in the introduction: "Our success in war and peace depends not on luck, or rhetoric, or the intervention of mythical gods; it depends on human character and modern scientific creations, and on respect for the meaning and methods of science. . . . It is not luck but logic which in the present and future will win-the careful and logical consideration of what effects come from specific causes, what are the natural reasons behind events, what are the processes required to adapt nature to the material and spiritual advantages of mankind...
Newly-elected president of the Harvard chapter of Sigma Xi, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory, acted as chairman for the meeting...
...Shapley's position in the meeting was qualified, not only by his officiality in Sigma Xi, the scientific Phi Beta Kappa. He is president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and affiliated with other academic groups...
When the director of the Tonanzintla project, Luis Enrique Erro, was first secretary of the Mexican embassy in Washington a decade ago, he had astronomy as his hobby. He made frequent trips to Cambridge to see the Observatory and under the tutelage of is director. Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Practical Astronomy, he became an active amateur observer...