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...Stars and Atoms" will be the subject of a lecture which will be given this evening at eight o'clock in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory by Dr. Harlow Shapley of the College Observatory. The lecture will be illustrated and will be open to all members of the University and their friends...
Last Monday night Dr. Shapley described the various types of astronomical bodies that exist in space and the methods used in determining their immense distances. Some recent photographs were thrown upon the screen showing great stretches of dark nebulae crowding the Milky...
...Department of Astronomy announces a series of three illustrated lectures on Cosmogony to be given by Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard College Observatory, Dr. Shapley, who came recently from Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, has made important contributions to the conception of the size of the stellar universe...
Less than a generation ago Simon Newcomb, one of America's foremost mathematical astronomers, estimated the diameter of the Galactic System to be not less than 7000 light years and later ventured to state that as an outside limit it could not likely exceed 20,000 light years. Dr. Shapley's researches have developed newer methods of determining stellar distances which leads him to the conclusion that the real dimensions of the Milky Way must exceed Newcomb's earlier estimate nearly fifty fold. Recent investigations in physics will have a very important bearing on certain cosmic problems. These swiftly changing...
...Harlow Shapley, an astronomer connected with the Mt. Wilson Solar Ovservatory at Pasadena, has been appointed Observer of the Harvard College Observatory, and will enter upon his new duties about March. His appointment is for one year. The position to which he has been appointed is a new one, and will give him an opportunity to take an active part in the work of the Observatory in cooperation with the Acting Director, Professor Solon L. Bailey, and the other members of the staff. Mr. Shapley took his doctor's degree at Princeton, and although he is now only slightly over...