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Senator Taft then brought up Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, who, Taft said, has "attended every Communist meeting, important meeting, that we had in this country" and "joined every Communist front...
...reply, Conant flatly asserted that in his opinion Shapley was not a Communist. "I have known him for a long time," he added. "Anybody can be a hidden Communist, as was brought out here, but I do not regard...
Asked by Senator Fulbright why Shapley would join "so many of these organizations," Conant said that he wished to answer in an "impersonal" way and not talk about Shapley "whom I do not want to discuss...
...expected that world-renowned astronomer Harlow Shapley will be cited by McCarthy as evidence of Conant's laxity in keeping faculty members with questionable political affiliations on the Harvard faculty. Shapley was prominent in Henry Wallace's Progressive party, and has been associated with organizations considered subversive by the government...
...Shapley was especially concerned since he had much to do with setting up the Cepheids as reliable measuring sticks. After long consultations with other astronomers, he decided that the size of the whole universe must be doubled. If the remote galaxies are considered twice as far away, then their globular clusters will have about the proper intrinsic brightness. The galaxies will also be twice as big, reducing the Milky Way to an ordinary specimen...