Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Member bodies of the metagalaxy, which includes our Milky Way, are drifting apart at a far slower rate than had been previously supposed, Harlow Shapley, Pine Professor of Practical Astronomy, announced yesterday...
...figures of expansion of the metagalaxy, located by Harvard and Mount Wilson astronomers, check against the radioactively determined age of the earth's crust, Shapley said...
...telescope, which looks like an ordinary instrument without the mirror, receives radiations from free hydrogen of wave lengths of from 1 mm, to ten meters in length. According to Shapley, radio-astronomy is an entirely new and important field, in which British, Dutch, and French astronomers, as well as those of this country, are working...
...four-day seminar, Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, was elected chairman of an eleven member executive committee...
...Observatory's director, Harlow Shapley Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy will also speak at the ceremonies which begin at 4:15 p.m. at the astronomical station...