Word: shapleys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bearing an honorary degree presented by Viceroy Archibald Wavell and praising the interest in scientific matters shown by men and women of India, Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, returned to Cambridge Thursday morning from a month-long tour of Indian universities and observatories...
...urgent request from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, vice-president of the interim-government, summoned him to India in early January. Successor of President Conant as head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Profesor Shapley represented the organization at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Indian Science Congress...
...India is a country growing up in science," Professor Shapley asserted yesterday. "Political leaders of all parties and men of the government took great interest in the science conferences...
Three thousand people swarmed to Delhi University, jammed together on wooden benches, and sat on the ground in chilling Indian weather to hear the American astronomer predict what a Newsweek correspondent called "a great intellectual awakening" in India. "I have never spoken," said Professor Shapley, "to a more responsive, alert, and eager audience. India is one of the hopes for the world. The sky is the limit for scientific research in India...
Professor Woodworth's talks will follow after the last lecture on "The Unsolved Problems of Astronomy," a series organized by Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory. Applications for tickets to the Lowell Institute Lectures is made by mail to the Curator at the Boston Public Library two days before the beginning of each course...