Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology emeritus, denied the charges upon their release...
...Shapley at that time accused the report as just a way to get headlines. "Beyond the same tedious material that McCarthy floundered with, there is nothing new here," he said. Mather brushed off the charges against him emphatically. "It is untrue, of course," he said. "The group of men on the list are a curious mixture of people. Some are out and out Communists and some are patriotic Americans...
...resignation leaves the Department with only four permanent Faculty members: Menzel; Cecilia H. PayneGaposchkin, Phillips Astronomer; Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; and Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy and Department chairman...
Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics, who succeeded Harlow Shapley in 1953 as Director of the Observatory, leads the solar and ionosphere work. The Observatory has given up its part in the operation of the High Altitude Observatory at Climax, Colorado, but still shares the newer Sunspot, New Mexico, site of the Air Force's Sacramento Peak Observatory. The instruments include the largest coronagraph in the world, and four super-Schmidt meteor cameras there and at the companion meteor station at Mayhill, New Mexico...
When contacted DuBois said that he did not know about the report and could not comment. Shapley and Mather also had not heard about it until informed by the CRIMSON. The information was published in U.S. News and World Report...