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...position as director of the Australian Commonwealth Observatory, on Mount Stromlo near Canberra, will enable to return to his original field of interest. Optical research on the Southern Milky Way has been his special interest since Harlow Shapley brought him to Harvard...
Both Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology emeritus, denied the charges upon their release...
...Shapley at that time accused the report as just a way to get headlines. "Beyond the same tedious material that McCarthy floundered with, there is nothing new here," he said. Mather brushed off the charges against him emphatically. "It is untrue, of course," he said. "The group of men on the list are a curious mixture of people. Some are out and out Communists and some are patriotic Americans...
Much of the information in support of the Senate's charges came from stories which ran in the Daily Worker. Shapley called this type of evidence ridiculous, pointing out that the Worker has run the names of many prominent Americans...
...resignation leaves the Department with only four permanent Faculty members: Menzel; Cecilia H. PayneGaposchkin, Phillips Astronomer; Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; and Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy and Department chairman...