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...Shapley was president of the Commission on Nebulae and Star Clusters, celestial departments of which he is a consummate master. He reported and commended surveys of galaxies of stars beyond the Milky Way ("island universes") undertaken at a half-dozen observatories, singled out for especial compliment Edwin Powell Hubble's collection of nebulae down past the 19th magnitude of brightness, revealed that Harvard's total of discovered but unpublished nebulae in the Northern and Southern hemispheres was 140,000, most of them fainter than the 16th magnitude.* Hot Ants & Hot Stars. Harlow Shapley was born 49 years...
Thus Harlow Shapley, now about halfway along in his detailed census of the all-embracing Universe, was able to trace in Nature a continuous train of systems from the smallest known thing to the largest. Atoms with their electrons and nuclei are systems; so are molecules and molecular combinations such as crystals and colloids. Men, monkeys and chinch-bugs are colloidal aggregates. Then come meteoritic associations (comets, meteor streams), systems of satellites, stars, double and multiple stars, star clusters, galaxies, super-galaxies. Above all, the Universe of universes-the Metagalaxy. "That," says Harlow Shapley, "is as far as astronomy takes...
Included on the panel to conduct the inquest were: Zechariah Chaffee, Jr., professor of law, Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy. Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro De Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, served as a witness at the inquest designated as "The Enemy of Fascism...
Walter R. Amesbury '36, Michaol W. Berliner 1GB, Burdick G. Clarke '38, Eric T. Clarke '38, William M. Ginsberg '37, Ernest W. James '38, Edward T. Ladd '38, William P. Lester '38, James L. Morrisson '38, Oglesby Paul '38, Willis H. Shapley '38, Robert W. Snyder '38, William F. Swann '37, and Warren P. Swett...
Composing the panel are Zechariah Chafee, Jr., professor of Law; Felix Frankfurter, Bryne Professor of Administrative Law; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History; and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...