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Shapley's Impact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Owen Gingerich
Owen Gingerich*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Abstract

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Harlow Shapley's legacy can be divided into three aspects: his scientific contributions, the institutions he built, and his multi-faceted efforts to publicize astronomy. Today's public funding of science undoubtedly owes much to Shapley's enthusiasm for astronomy.

Type
Chapter I. Review Papers on Harlow Shapley
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 126: The Harlow-Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies , 1988 , pp. 23 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988