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...other upper level course is Natural Sciences 115, "Cosmography," to be taught by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy. The course is "A survey of the cosmos in light of current scientific knowledge...
Five pioneering directors have been responsible for the Observatory's 113 years of success. But it has been the present Director, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy, who has outshadowed them all by his work in the last 31 years...
...Shapley sometimes reterred to as the modern Copernicus, has not only continued the work of his predecessors in concentrating on vast classification projects, but he constantly furthered individual research throughout his term here...
...which the CRIMSON received this week is one of a special first edition of 500 copies which was sent to 100 of the "most princely young Americans" and a select list of 225 of the "cream of the elect of life on earth." These latter include President Conant, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor...
...Robert Williams Wood was in his soth year as a full professor at Johns Hopkins University, and the brightest names in the scientific world wanted to help celebrate the occasion. Albert Einstein had written to pay his respects, Niels Bohr had cabled from Copenhagen, Robert A. Millikan, Harlow Shapley and Karl Compton all sent messages. In 50 years, scientists all over the world have grown accustomed to paying tribute to Professor Wood-and Johns Hopkins has grown just as used to having him as a legend...