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, has been awarded the Pope Pius XI prize for astronomy, totaling 50,000 lire, about $2,500, according to an United Press bulletin from the Vatican City...
Working independently for the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory, and Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy, have furnished material for an open letter to the Board of Education of New York City warning against violations of intellectual freedom in the New York School situation...
Professors Shapley and Menzel along with Professor Ernest M. Patterson of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, made separate analyses of the Ackley trial, the first of the Education Board's trials in City College cases...
...Harvard College Observatory will issue this summer a new series of nine popular books covering the principal areas of astronomy, it was announced today by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Bart J. Bok, associate professor of astronomy, editors of the volumes...
Conceived in 1920 by Walter S. Lemmon in an attempt to start a world university of the air to spread knowledge and goodwill among all nations, it was not until 1935, at the time when Harlow Shapley, Payne Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard Observatory, became a trustee of the then newly-formed World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, that transmission really began...