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...Harlow Shapley, formerly of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory at Pasadena, California, whose researches on the size and structure of the stellar universe have attracted widespread attention among astronomers, has been appointed Director of the College Observatory, and thus assumes a position which has been vacant since the death of Professor E. C. Pickering...
...Life and the Physical Universe" was the topic of Dr. Harlow Shapley's lecture at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory last night, where he gave the last of a series of talks on Cosmogony. His address dealt mainly with the question of the evolution of the stars. The evolution of the sun as one of the stars followed, and during this process came the birth of the planets of which the Earth...
...appearance of life on the Earth led to the question: is there life on other planets? Life can only exist under favorable circumstances and is dependent upon temperature, atmospheric conditions, oxygen, and water. Dr. Shapley pointed out that if life does exist on other planets in our solar system, it must be of a very different nature...
This evening at eight o'clock in the main lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Dr. Harlow Shapley of the College Observatory will deliver his final lecture on "Gosmogony". He will have as his subject "Life and the Physical Universe". The lecture will be illustrated and is open to the public...
...Shapley has recently returned from Mt. Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, where he has been doing some important research work. The results of his work have been the formation of newer methods of determining stellar distances which are far more accurate than the old methods and which can estimate distances very much greater than was possible with the systems used before, enabling him to disprove many of the theories of earlier astronomers...