Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist...

of Centaurus. It is 650 million light-years away (z=0.046). In 1930, Harlow Shapley and his colleagues at the Harvard College Observatory started a survey...

called the Shapley–Curtis Debate, was held on 26 April 1920 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber...

19th century, was overthrown by astronomer Harlow Shapley's work on globular clusters in 1918. Shapley's research marked the transition from heliocentrism...

" Lloyd Shapley was born on June 2, 1923, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the sons of astronomers Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz Shapley, both from...

Harbor Harlow Shapley (1885–1972), American astronomer, married to Martha Martha Betz Shapley (1890–1981), American astronomer, married to Harlow Mildred...

the Universe. Following the 1920 Great Debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Doust Curtis, observations by Edwin Hubble showed that the...

Apollo program. Shapley was born March 2, 1917, in Pasadena, California. His parents were astronomers Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz Shapley. He attended...

scale. This became known as the Shapley–Sawyer Concentration Class. Hogg, Helen Battles Sawyer (October 1965). "Harlow Shapley and Globular Clusters". Publications...

enable her to move to the United States. After being introduced to Harlow Shapley, the Director of the Harvard College Observatory, where he had just...

Shapley is a lunar impact crater that lies along the southern edge of Mare Crisium. It was named after American astronomer Harlow Shapley. It was previously...

McManus, William Morris, Alonzo F. Myers, John P. Peters, Paul Robeson, Harlow Shapley, Herman Shumlin, Carl Van Doren Other sources: National: Executive chair:...

center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and that Sirius might be the star. Harlow Shapley stated in 1918 that the halo of globular clusters surrounding the Milky...

ellipsoid galaxy with the Sun close to the center. A different method by Harlow Shapley based on the cataloguing of globular clusters led to a radically different...

daughter of astronomers Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz Shapley; her father named the asteroid 878 Mildred for her. Mildred Shapley, one of five siblings...

Arts" presentation, the prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley claims to have inspired "Fire and Ice". Shapley describes an encounter he had with Frost a year...

research. The idea for the lectureship came from then society President Harlow Shapley in 1945, who led the fund raising drive to collect $10,000 from the...

constellation Sculptor. It was discovered in 1937 by American astronomer Harlow Shapley using the 24-inch Bruce refractor at Boyden Observatory. The galaxy...

to academic libraries and scientists, including Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley in 1947. In 1950, after eight publishing houses rejected the Worlds...

1939, to Mildred and Ralph Matthews and is the eldest granddaughter of Harlow Shapley. Matthews completed her undergraduate degree in Physics at Carleton...

the age of 32. In 1921, Harlow Shapley became director of HCO, and soon afterward hired Ames as an assistant. Ames was Shapley's first graduate student...

described as "the world's greatest non-professional astronomer" by Harlow Shapley. Leslie Copus Peltier was born in Delphos, Ohio. Delphos is located...

binary system. However, in 1914, Harlow Shapley demonstrated that this idea should be abandoned. Two years later, Shapley and others had discovered that...

first 28 being identified as early as 1919–20 by American astronomer Harlow Shapley. Most of the variables are of type RR Lyrae, or periodic variables....

Harlow Shapley dated June 24, 1959. Collection of the Harvard University Library. Accessed digitally August 13, 2022. Letter from Dr. Harlow Shapley to...

Supergalaxy" in 1953, which he changed to "Local Supercluster" (LSC) in 1958. Harlow Shapley, in his 1959 book Of Stars and Men, suggested the term Metagalaxy. Debate...

were actually independent galaxies. In 1920, the Great Debate between Harlow Shapley and Curtis took place concerning the nature of the Milky Way, spiral...

(1934–1937) Robert Grant Aitken (1937–1940) Joel Stebbins (1940–1943) Harlow Shapley (1943–1946) Otto Struve (1946–1949) Alfred Harrison Joy (1949–1952)...

class there alongside her brother. She also heard Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley speak; eventually she would go to work with him on variable stars. Swope...

not materialise. In September 1923 Dr Paras accepted an offer from Dr Harlow Shapley, to become the Superintendent of the Harvard Observatory's Southern...