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...

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

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

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...

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...