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About 300 stars in the sky are known as Cepheid variables. Some internal pulse causes them to vary in brightness, in cycles of a few days or a few weeks. Most of them are hot, yellow, supergiants. Harlow Shapley at Mount Wilson worked out a relation between their luminosities and variation periods which yielded clues to shape and dimensions of the whole Milky Way (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last week Dr. Shapley, now director of Harvard Observatory, described the first known star to become a Cepheid while under observation. Ten years ago it began to pulse every two weeks...
...meetings will be led by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory. In one on cosmogony he will give a series of lectures on the physical universe and the relation of the earth, solar system, and galaxy to the rest of the cosmos. The other colloquium will concern hollow squares, consisting of informal discussions of various observational and theoretical investigations...
...MENTION HARVARD'S ASTRONOMER HARLOW SHAPLEY'S LECTURE AT DETROIT [TIME, APRIL 13] AND NOT THE ONE AT CINCINNATI? AS AGAINST DETROIT'S 200 SKY-LOVERS' ATTENDANCE WE HAD OVERFLOW ATTENDANCE OF 2,200. DR. SHAPLEY DID NOT LOSE HIS SLIDES IN CINCINNATI AND DID NOT HAVE TO FILL IN HIS STAR LECTURE WITH LECTURE ON ANTS BUT GAVE HIS ANT LECTURE TO SPECIAL AUDIENCE AT QUEEN CITY CLUB LUNCHEON. AT WORLD FAMOUS ROOK-WOOD POTTERY DR. SHAPLEY DESIGNED AND SIGNED ASTRONOMICAL ASH TRAY FOR HIMSELF AND MEMBERS. CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY SAW, ACCORDING TO SIZE, AMERICA...
Some years ago Dr. Shapley momentarily put aside his celestial preoccupations to study the ant, discovered that the hotter an ant was the faster it would run, still keeps a bottle of ants on his desk at Harvard Observatory (TIME, July 29). All this the introducer recalled just as he was beginning to grope uncomfortably for something more to say. Dr. Shapley came to his rescue, began to talk glibly and learnedly about ants. Said he: "When you go out of your way to step on an ant, you insult the order of Nature, for you, a mere social upstart...
After 15 minutes of this a light blinked from the projection room. The slides were found. Harlow Shapley then abandoned entomology, launched out into the starry fields of the Milky...