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Harlow Shapley

Affiliations: 
1914-1921 Mount Wilson Observatory 
 1921-1956 Astronomy Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Area:
globular star clusters
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(1885 - 1972)
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Shapley, Harlow, The orbits of eighty-seven eclipsing binaries--a summary, dissertation Princeton University (1913) ... Professor Russell, who has directed and encouraged the investigation throughout ...

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Parents

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Frederick Hanley Seares research assistant 1907-1910 University of Missouri (Physics Tree)
 (https://phys-astro.sonoma.edu/brucemedalists/frederick-seares)
Henry Norris Russell grad student 1913 Princeton
 (The orbits of eighty-seven eclipsing binaries--a summary)
George E. Hale post-doc 1914-1921 Mount Wilson Observatory

Children

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Bart J. Bok research assistant 1929-1932 Harvard
Jacqueline Sweeney Kloss research assistant 1952-1956 Harvard College Observatory
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin grad student 1925 Radcliffe College
Emma T.R. Williams Vyssotsky grad student 1930 Radcliffe College
Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg grad student 1931 Radcliffe College
Carl Kennan Seyfert grad student 1936 Harvard
James Cuffey grad student 1938 Harvard
Fletcher Guard Watson grad student 1938 Harvard
Florence Shirley Patterson Jones grad student 1941 Radcliffe College
Stanley Porter Wyatt grad student 1950 Harvard
Ivan R. King grad student 1952 Harvard
Lyman Spitzer post-doc 1938-1939 Harvard
Jaakko Vilhelmi Tuominen post-doc 1938-1940 Harvard College Observatory (Physics Tree)
Emily Hughes Boyce research scientist 1930-1945 Harvard College Observatory

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Shapley H. (2011) Galaxies American Scientist. 99: 56-58
Shapley H. (1972) Beyond the Observatory. American Journal of Physics. 40: 1351-1351
Shapley H, Edmonson N. (1970) Through rugged ways to the stars Physics Today. 23: 70-71
Usher PD, Shen BSP, Wright FW, et al. (1969) Long-term behavior of the Seyfert galaxy 3C 120 The Astrophysical Journal. 158: 535
Shapley H. (1956) Galactic and extragalactic studies at the Harvard Observatory Vistas in Astronomy. 2: 1564-1573
Shapley H, Sweeney J. (1955) GALACTIC AND EXTRAGALACTIC STUDIES, XXIII. OPACITY OF THE SOUTHERN MILKY WAY DUST CLOUDS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 41: 837-42
Shapley H, Nail VM. (1955) MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. XVII. SEVEN NOTES ON THE CEPHEID VARIABLES. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 41: 829-36
Shapley H. (1955) THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. XVI. INFRARED STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 41: 824-8
Nail VM, Shapley H. (1955) THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. XV. ON THE TILT OF THE LARGE CLOUD. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 41: 685-90
Shapley H, Nail VM. (1955) THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. XIV. THE BAR OF THE LARGE CLOUD. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 41: 185-90
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