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...celebrated scientists lave written popular books about their own specialties. Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) and Astronomer Harlow Shapley (Flights from Chaos) are exceptions. But in general relatively obscure men, journalists with solid scientific backgrounds or university scientists with a flair for journalism have taken the job of making science "understanded of the people." Among such U. S. interpreters of science three men are particularly outstanding...
...members, most of them bigger than the sun. Latest estimates of the Milky Way's diameter are about 100,000 light-years (one light-year is about six trillion miles). But there are bigger astronomical aggregations than galaxies. There are groups of galaxies which Harvard's Harlow Shapley, systematizer of the universe, calls super-galaxies or "super-systems" (TIME. July 29). Clusters bigger than super-galaxies he calls metagalactic clouds (metagalaxy is his name for the whole universe...
What appears to be an enormous "metagalactic cloud," containing probably 50,000 galaxies similar to our won Milky Way, has been photographed by Harvard astronomers, according to a report published yesterday by Dr.Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory...
...respect to Messrs. J. R. Walsh and A. R. Sweezy, instructors in Economics. The memorandum was addressed to the following nine professors: E. Merrick Dodd, Jr., Felix Frankfurter, Elmer P. Kohler, Edmund M. Morgan, Samuel E. Morison, Kenneth B. Murdock, Ralph B. Perry, Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Harlow Shapley...
...Franken '40, Nelson Gildersleeve '40, Israel J. Graff '38, David L. Grove '40, J. H. Lindstrom 1G. Raymond H. Norweb, Jr. '40, Jack M. Perlman '40, Rupert W. Pole '40, George E. Potter '40, William C. Rittman '39, Isadore N. Rosenberg '40, Thomas F. Seymour '40, Alan H. Shapley '40, Douglas R. Sears '40, David R. Simboll '40, J. L. Stuart 1L, Elkan Turk, Jr. '89, Walter I. Wardwell '40, Leonard D. Warren, Jr. '40, R. G. Wayland 1G. C. M. Williams 1G. and Richard L. Wing...