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...Shapley's tinest contribution to science was the proof that the Milky Way galaxy is enormously Larger than had previously been thought probable. From this he derived the facts that the solar system is actually at the fringe of the stellar system...
...been only individually that Shapley has excelled. When he retires next year he can look back on several major improvements which he has overseen and which have given the Department its important international position...
With his staff Shapley has developed the foremost Graduate School of Astronomy in the country which can boast one-third of the nation's Ph.D.'s over the last twenty years. He has seen the number of Harvard-operated observatories increased from two to eight. His staff has invaded the continent of Africa. He has increased the number of working personnel four times over what it was when he came to Harvard in 1921. He has extended the Department's areas of research into the most numerous and varied phases of current inquiries...
...Harvard Observatory was originally founded as a Research Institute in Astronomy. This continued until 1925, when Shapley established a number of courses in astronomy on the graduate level. Now the observatory has twenty students who are studying for their doctorates...
...Shapley attributes much of the Graduate School's expansion to his able assistants. These include Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy and Associate Director of the Observatory; Cecilia P. Gaposchkin, researcher in Astronomy, Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics and Associate Director for Solar Research; and Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy...