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Naming the New Planet is a problem. Percival Lowell's wife, who still lives in Beacon Street, Boston, last week suggested Percival. She rejected Lowell as being fixed to too many notable institutions-the Lowell Observatory, the Lowell Institute, the City of Lowell, etc. etc. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, suggested Cronos, son of Uranus and father of Zeus. Astrologers recommended variously Isis, Vulcan, Lilith. Choice lies with the Lowell Observatory...
...moved to Rahway, N.J., that Carl realized he actually could become a professional astronomer. All along he had felt he might have to go into the clothing business with his father, perhaps as a salesman. But his high school biology teacher assured him that astronomers, like the famous Harlow Shapley, were really paid for their work. In 1951, at 16, he entered the University of Chicago on a scholarship. Nine years later, he left with a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics...
Velikovksy, who had practiced psychoanalysis before studying the history of man and the cosmos, first introduced himself to the physical science community when he sought out Professor Harlow Shapley, then director of the Harvard Observatory, to gain comment on and an evaluation of his concept of cataclysmic history. Shapley refused to read it. Despite his ignorance of Velikovsky's detailed arguments, Shapley nevertheless felt sufficiently informed to tell a colleague--who had read Velikovsky's work--that Velikovsky's conclusions were "pretty obviously based on incompetent data." When MacMillan published Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision in 1950, Shapley...
...surgery; in New Haven, Conn. While working at the Walt Disney studio, Hubley contributed to many memorable full-length cartoons, including the lyrical Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia. With his wife Faith, he formed a production company in 1955; they made films explaining the works of Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as well as on abstract ideas of psychology, peace, science and democracy. The first of their three Academy Awards was won in 1960 for Moon bird, a joyful cartoon that featured their two sons' fantasy of catching a big bird with rope and shovel...
...first time that the stars were not fixed in the heavens. By the early 1900s, astronomers had learned that the sun was merely one of billions of stars in a disc-shaped galaxy, or island of stars, then believed by many to constitute the entire universe. In 1920 Harlow Shapley calculated that the galaxy, called the Milky Way, was some 300,000 light years* in diameter, a distance too stupendous for most people to comprehend, and about three times larger than today's estimates of its size. But the boundaries of the universe were not yet in sight. Using...