Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come here at the request of Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, who met the young graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, after a lecture he gave in London. It was due to his insistence that she was permitted to stay...
...position as director of the Australian Commonwealth Observatory, on Mount Stromlo near Canberra, will enable to return to his original field of interest. Optical research on the Southern Milky Way has been his special interest since Harlow Shapley brought him to Harvard...
Another of Bok's special interests means that the University will be losing more than an astronomer when his resignation becomes effective: he has always loved to teach and been concerned with undergraduates, who regard him as their best friend in the Department. Yet when Shapley first offered him an Observatory fellowship at a meeting in Leyden, Bok thought Harvard was just an observatory, and did not understand that it was also a university. Yet later he was to become critical of his Department and at one point say, "a university that does not exist for teaching has lost direction...
...first encountered Mrs. Bok at the same astronomical conference where he met Harlow Shapley. She was then Priscilla Fairfield, assistant professor of Astronomy at Smith, but Bok's high school English was enough to convince her to forsake an academic career, and they were married a few days after he came to America the next year. She did not give up Astronomy, though, and has collaborated with him on many books, notably one of his principal works, The Milky Way, now in its third edition...
Much of the information in support of the Senate's charges came from stories which ran in the Daily Worker. Shapley called this type of evidence ridiculous, pointing out that the Worker has run the names of many prominent Americans...