Dr. Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley: President of AAAS, 1947.

OF James B. Fisk, formerly assistant director of physical research, Bell Telephone Laboratories, who resigned on February 1 to become director, Division of Research, Atomic Energy Commission. Dr. Fisk joined the Bell staff in 1939 after a year as associate professor of physics at the University of North Carolina. After receiving his B. S. degree in 1931 and his Ph.D. in 1935 from Massachusetts ...

THERMOKINETICS OF LIOMETOPUM APICULATUM MAYR By HARLOW SHAPLEY

in investigating. Finally, groups in which the functions u(x) are discontinuous would seem to be worthy of consideration. 1 G. Kowalewski, Sitz. ber. Math. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 120, Abteilung Ila', I142, 1911 (77-109,1435-72). 2 See writer's doctor's dissertation (Chicago, 1918). 3 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 15, 1914r (139). 4 In a paper by the writer soon to be published on Linear Partial Different...

Astronomy : Shapley and Nicholson on the Spectral Lines of a Pulsating Star by Harlow Shapley and Seth B

The hypothesis that the periodic variations in light and spectrum of a Cepheid variable are due to radial expansion and contraction of a single stellar body demands a behavior in the periodic oscillation of the spectral lines which is decidedly different from the behavior of the absorption lines of an ordinary spectroscopic binary star. In the latter case the line-shifts show, in accordance wit...

ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 261 ON THE EXISTENCE OF EXTERNAL GALAXIES By Harlow Shapley I. Introduction

Studies of Magnitudes in Star Clusters , X . Spec - Tral Type B and the Local Stellar System by Harlow Shapley

A word should be said as to the theoretically important question whether the reciprocal crosses differ in their results. No consistent difference is observable. Eight of the 31 F, cows (indicated by an asterisk in table 1) had Guernsey dams while 23 had Holstein dams. In their first lactation period the cows with Guernsey dams gave less milk but more butter-fat, average 6953 pounds of milk, 287...