Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Observatory was originally founded as a Research Institute in Astronomy. This continued until 1925, when Shapley established a number of courses in astronomy on the graduate level. Now the observatory has twenty students who are studying for their doctorates...
...Shapley attributes much of the Graduate School's expansion to his able assistants. These include Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy and Associate Director of the Observatory; Cecilia P. Gaposchkin, researcher in Astronomy, Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics and Associate Director for Solar Research; and Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy...
...Winlock's career the first stage in the Observatory's development was completed. The second stage first stage in the Observatory's development was completed. The second stage which lasted up until the age or Shapley, was a time of valuable phometric and photographic studies, extending from...
...separate chapter in the annals of the institution is the monumental work done by Miss Annle J. Cannon in compiling the Henry Draper Catalogue. She worked through the terms of both Pickering and Shapley. Her classification of all the stars in the sky down to the eighth magnitude was one of the largest investigations ever conducted in this or any other observatory...
During the last thirty odd years under Shapley's administration, the Observatory has made its greatest strides forward. It was he who established the Agassiz Station at Harvard, the transfer of the southern station from Peru to South Africa, and with the collaboration of Menzel, the installation at Climax, Colorado. The new headquarters building in Cambridge was built under his direction, and provides fireproof housing for the nearly half million plates which contain Harvard's history of the sky for the past sixty years...