In the history of science, Harlow Shapley is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Harlow Shapley as American astronomer (1885-1972).
Harlow Shapley was born at Nashville in 1885. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at University of Missouri and Princeton University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Harlow Shapley is described as astronomer, university teacher and meteorologist.
His affiliations include Mount Wilson Observatory and Harvard College Observatory.
Results that survive re-examination become the floor of a discipline.
His recorded fields of work are astronomy.
His work was formally recognised with the Prix Jules Janssen, Henry Draper Medal and Henry Norris Russell Lectureship.
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 1972, at 87. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Affiliated with Mount Wilson Observatory and Harvard College Observatory
- Educated at University of Missouri and Princeton University
- Worked as astronomer, university teacher and meteorologist
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