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University laboratories will play host to eight or ten Russian scientists this summer, Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, noted yesterday. Just returned from an international scientific conference in Copenhagen, Professor Shapley declared that Soviet astronomers would be trained here in the use of some of the observatory's most advanced equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOVIET SCIENTISTS PLAN SUMMER VISIT | 3/19/1946 | See Source »

Professor Shapley pointed to a growing Russian interest and gratitude fro the Hugh Cabot Memorial Fund, raised in this country to build a penicillin laboratory inn the Soviet Union. As an astronomer, he praised the offer of the Russian delegation at the conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOVIET SCIENTISTS PLAN SUMMER VISIT | 3/19/1946 | See Source »

...prodigious USSR state support for scientific research, even along "pure" lines was lauded by Shapley, who expressed hopes for an American equivalent and who observed somewhat bitterly that American research must often be conducted by "tired professors in over-time hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOVIET SCIENTISTS PLAN SUMMER VISIT | 3/19/1946 | See Source »

Backing up his central assertion on international affairs that "we in the U.S. are living in a glass house and should be discreet about throwing bricks outside," Shapley observed with a smile that the Boston conscience was hardly lily-white in view of the records of its current political leadership, and that Chicago's daily crime episodes, just as an added example, don't suggest our national moral integrity to be beyond reproach from overseas...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Atom Research Restrictions Assailed By Shapley; Denounces Censorship | 3/1/1946 | See Source »

...Shapley will go globe-trotting again on Saturday when he takes off from New York for Copenhagen, Denmark, where the International Astronomical Union will hold a two-week confab. "We shall not ask Maj. Gen. Groves," he reminds us, "what he thinks about orbital calculations...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Atom Research Restrictions Assailed By Shapley; Denounces Censorship | 3/1/1946 | See Source »

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