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...having some difficulty in deciding exactly what to present," said Harlow Shapley, Payne Professor of Practical Astronomy. Shapley has consented to telecast a condensed version of his popular Cosmography course at the request of the California Academy of Science. His class "attempts to orient man in a complex Universe...
Menzel, also a professor of Astrophysics and Associate Director for Solar Research, succeeded Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, as head of the Observatory in 1952; he is the author of "Flying Sancers...
...addition to his honor as Association President, Shapley has won awards from 12 foreign countries and is present Chairman of the International Observatory Commission. His achievements in Who's Who take up nearly six inches of fine spring, and new obligations fill his desk each day. Many of the bids are for speaking engagements, for his is a witty, articulate, even impassioned lecturer. He spices authority with delightful anecdotes from his numerous activities...
...Among Shapley's interests are his ant theories--"I've picked the creatures off stone walls in dozens of counties"--and his debunking of pseudo-science. At a faculty gathering, for example, a fellow professor recalls Shapley's pacing about the lawn with a divining fork, "only to reveal a Princeton instructor's hidden bottle...
...Shapley's major pursuit is charting the heavens. He has great enthusiasm in his cosmography course for non-scientists, requiring only a "persistent curiosity" for this inquiry into man's place on Observatory Hill. Here, lighting a cigar, writing to his science friends who include the Pope, or plotting some new star, he shows himself to be a man and an astronomer of the first magnitude...