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When astronomers (or science-fiction writers) speculate about nonearthly kinds of life, they generally think of strange beings existing on planets revolving around a star that is at the proper distance to keep them reasonably warm. Astronomer Harlow Shapley, former head of the Harvard Observatory, has figured that there are probably 100,000 life-bearing planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Last week Shapley suggested that the universe may contain another class of celestial bodies that could sustain life. They are neither planets nor true stars, and are somewhere in between the two in size-perhaps 100 times bigger than...
Harvard professors who signed the paper were Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, emeritus; Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, emeritus; Kenneth V. Thimann, professor of Biology; and Oscar Zarisk, professor of Mathematics...
...come here at the request of Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, who met the young graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, after a lecture he gave in London. It was due to his insistence that she was permitted to stay...
Another of Bok's special interests means that the University will be losing more than an astronomer when his resignation becomes effective: he has always loved to teach and been concerned with undergraduates, who regard him as their best friend in the Department. Yet when Shapley first offered him an Observatory fellowship at a meeting in Leyden, Bok thought Harvard was just an observatory, and did not understand that it was also a university. Yet later he was to become critical of his Department and at one point say, "a university that does not exist for teaching has lost direction...
...first encountered Mrs. Bok at the same astronomical conference where he met Harlow Shapley. She was then Priscilla Fairfield, assistant professor of Astronomy at Smith, but Bok's high school English was enough to convince her to forsake an academic career, and they were married a few days after he came to America the next year. She did not give up Astronomy, though, and has collaborated with him on many books, notably one of his principal works, The Milky Way, now in its third edition...