Initially identified by the astronomer Harlow Shapley in the 1930s as a “cloud” in the constellation Centaurus, this ...

I n the late 1930s, astronomer Harlow Shapley stared up at the sky and noticed something extraordinary — an enormous cloud of ...

In answer to a subpoena to appear before the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities Committee, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the University Observatory ...

Harlow Shapley took up the offensive last night in his fight with Representative John E. Rankin's House Committee on Un-American Activities. In a strongly worded letter to Representative Karl E.

Shapley came from a farming background in Nashville, Missouri. He began his career as a crime reporter on the *Daily Sun* of a small Kansas town when he was 16. He entered the University of Missouri ...

"Coming Eclipses of the Sun and Moon" is the subject of a lecture which Professor Harlow Shapley of the University Observatory will give at the New Lecture Hall tomorrow at 4 o'clock. Professor ...

Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific ...

known as the Shapley Concentration (named after U.S. scientist Harlow Shapley, who first observed this concentration in the ...

A major astronomical loss was suffered by the Harvard Observatory in 1944, Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, revealed Sunday in his annual report.

By the dawn of the 20th century, not much had changed in the 400 years since Galileo's discovery of the four jovian moons and ...