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...money given to the Astronomical Observatory, known as the Elizabeth E. Bemis Fund, will be used in aiding the survey which is being made of the heavens out to the distance of one hundred million light years under the supervision of Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Observatory. This task is being carried on at the South African Observatory and the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, and was started more than ten years...
Other arts & sciences aces: Harlow Shapley, 48 (astronomy), Charles Hall Grandgent, 71 (Romance languages), Percy Williams Bridgman, 51 (physics), Kirtley Fletcher Mather, 45 (geology), last week named director of the Summer School...
Awarded. To Dr. Harlow Shapley, astronomer, director of Harvard Observatory: the (British) Royal Astronomical Society's gold medal*, for studies on the structure and dimensions of the galactic system (conglomerations of stars, such as the Milky...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of practical astronomy, and director of the Harvard College Observatory, received yesterday the gold medal of the London Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the galaxy. England has no higher honor for astronomers than this reward which Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Dr. Albert Einstein have won in the past...
...Shapley has advanced the idea that the sun, moon, and other planets all came to life at once from an eddy swirling in the gas that was the parent of the "Milky Way." According to that thesis, the whole solar system is made up of fragments of the gas-like matter ejected from that huge shining mass of material which later was condensed into those countless stars we view as our "Milky Way." This, for Dr. Shapley, is just one of a series of similar galaxies in space and is of no particular importance...