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...Harlow Shapley of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory who received the honorary degree of Sc. D. from the University of Pittsburg on Wednesday, joined the other members of the Harvard Faculty on extended speaking tours in the West, when he left for the Pacific Coast on Sunday. His itinerary includes brief stays at Leland Stanford University, Mt. Wilson Observatory at Pasadena, the Lowell Observatory at Flaggstaff, Arizona, and finally the Rice Institute of Houston, Texas, where he will deliver a series of three scheduled lectures on March 9, 10, and 11, dealing with the subject of "The Expanding Universe...
...audience remained, wondered what the meat was. They thought it most probable that he had adopted the idea of an expanding Universe. Other famed scientists who also have adopted it: Harlow Shapley of Harvard Astronomical Observatory; Walter Nernst of the University of Berlin. Most vehement exponent is Sir James Hopwood Jeans, British physicist...
...astronomical observatory to house Harvard's invaluable collection of photographic plates of the heavens is to be built on Observatory Bill in Cambridge it has been announced by Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory...
...rushing away from each other like a panic-stricken crowd (TIME, Oct. 6, Jan. 5). Last week Dr. Albert Einstein told newsgatherers in Pasadena that he was anxious to talk to Mt. Wilson astronomers about their observations of the red shift. At the same time in Cleveland, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Astronomical Observatory, reported some data about the expanding universe which he expects to repeat later to Dr. Einstein. Harvard astronomers have just completed a survey of one-tenth of the sky in an attempt to extend Man's knowledge of the universe. Dr. Shapley found...
...Report on Current Progress in Galactic Explorations" will be the subject of an Astronomical Colloquium to be delivered today by Professor Harlow Shapley in the Harvard College Observatory, Building A, at 4.30 o'clock...