Harlow Shapley

Affiliations:	1914-1921		Mount Wilson Observatory
	1921-1956	Astronomy	Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

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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

Frederick Hanley Seares	research assistant	1907-1910	University of Missouri
(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 (Astronomy Tree)

Children

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

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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