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...Disordered Universe." An outstanding player in astronomy's game of juggling and revising figures is tousle-haired Director Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory. To him last week the American Academy of Arts & Sciences presented its Rumford Medal for research in physics. Dr. Shapley responded with a talk on "The Anatomy of a Disordered Universe...
...sensitive apparatus." Albert Einstein, at Princeton's Insti tute for Advanced Study, foresaw no need of revising his relativity theory, spoke of deformations in the earth's surface, said the Pease-Pearson results should be "most interesting from a geophysics standpoint." Harvard Observatory's Director Harlow Shapley thought the results were due entirely to the relationship of earth, sun and moon movements, pointed out that the 14¾-day fluctuation was roughly equal to half a lunar cycle and the annual fluctuation to the earth's revolution round the sun. From nearby Caltech, Dr. Robert Andrews...
...fast (12,000 to 15,000 mi. per sec.) that it made the universe seem unreasonably young. Last week, backed by intricate mathematics and Harvard Observatory's mass of photometric records, plump, bespectacled Abbé Lemaitre and his collaborator, Harvard's sprightly, peripatetic Astronomer Harlow Shapley, stepped forth at Cambridge with the shrapnel universe dramatically modified into a soapsuds universe...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, has just received by way of the French embassy the Prix Janssen, the gold medal of the Societe Astronomique de France, which was awarded to him this summer. The Prix Janssen was named for a distinguished French astronomer of the nineteenth century whose outstanding discovery was that of the method of observing solar prominences without total solar eclipses, a contribution of great importance in respect to studies...
...years ago this prize was awarded to Einstein, and five years ago to Eddington. The present reward was made in recognition of Dr. Shapley's general researches in astronomy, probably mainly because of his cosmogony contributions, galactic measurements, and studies of Cepheid variables, subjects in which the French themselves have taken considerable interest...