Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bored with those things and probably won't even read the book," Harlow D. Shapley, professor of Astronomy, said last night about pro-Communist charges made against him in a book written recently by two Yale graduates...
...place, nor government nor business contract. He has written books on Thucydides. the rise of cities, on the Jacobins, Joyce, and juvenile delinquents. He has composed Pulitzer Prizewinning poems (The Conquistador by Archibald Mac-Leish) and music (Symphony No. 3 by Walter Piston). In the person of Harlow Shapley, he has given a new view of the geography of the universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through...
...subcommittee officially released the name of only one witness, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology. It is known, however, that Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Mrs. Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, also testified. Mrs. Markham, whose contract expires in June, has twice invoked the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution when testifying before the Jenner Committee of the United States Senate...
...time conversational genius flags, the weather is unquestionably the world's most honored subject. Yet with all their practice, languid prognosticators can seldom speak about the temperature tomorrow with so much authority as Harlow Shapley, seven other Harvard faculty members, and distinguished outside contributors can discuss the climate a million years ago--and a million years hence...
Menzel succeeds Harlow Shapley, who retired in the summer of 1952. He has served as acting director of the Observatory since September...