Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five pioneering directors have been responsible for the Observatory's 113 years of success. But it has been the present Director, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy, who has outshadowed them all by his work in the last 31 years...
...Shapley sometimes reterred to as the modern Copernicus, has not only continued the work of his predecessors in concentrating on vast classification projects, but he constantly furthered individual research throughout his term here...
...Shapley's tinest contribution to science was the proof that the Milky Way galaxy is enormously Larger than had previously been thought probable. From this he derived the facts that the solar system is actually at the fringe of the stellar system...
...been only individually that Shapley has excelled. When he retires next year he can look back on several major improvements which he has overseen and which have given the Department its important international position...
With his staff Shapley has developed the foremost Graduate School of Astronomy in the country which can boast one-third of the nation's Ph.D.'s over the last twenty years. He has seen the number of Harvard-operated observatories increased from two to eight. His staff has invaded the continent of Africa. He has increased the number of working personnel four times over what it was when he came to Harvard in 1921. He has extended the Department's areas of research into the most numerous and varied phases of current inquiries...