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...

" 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

1936. His thesis was "Studies of the External Galaxies", supervised by Harlow Shapley. The thesis dealt with colors and magnitudes of galaxies. In 1935 Seyfert...

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...

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

October 19, 1835, while the parent galaxy was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley. "SIMBAD Astronomical Database". Results for NGC 1049. Retrieved 2006-11-17...

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

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...

one of the first globular clusters to be carefully studied – first by Harlow Shapley in 1930. He placed within it roughly 70,000 stars and found it had a...

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....

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

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

year at Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Harlow Shapley, who had just gained renown for his work on nebulae, and at the Massachusetts...

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

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

the American Association of Variable Star Observers. In 1921, when Harlow Shapley took over as director of the observatory, Leavitt was made head of stellar...