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Harlow Shapley

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Active since

1912

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Harvard College Observatory(Current)

Mount Wilson Observatory

Harlow Shapley is an author at Harvard College Observatory specializing in photometry, engineering, and astrophysics.

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PhotometryEngineeringAstrophysicsBiologyClimatologyEarth ScienceClimate ChangeGeologyAstrodynamicsOphthalmology

Publications per year

1912–1969

39

Publications

39

Reference catalogue of bright galaxies

Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs, A. de Vaucouleurs, Harlow Shapley · 1964 · 279 citations

Galaxy Formation, Reference Catalogue, Photometry +1

On the Nature and Cause of Cepheid Variation

Harlow Shapley · The Astrophysical Journal · 1914 · 259 citations

Biology, Natural Sciences, Evolutionary Biology +4

The Stability of Isolated Clusters

Lyman Spitzer, Harlow Shapley · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1940 · 177 citations · Full text

Cluster Development, Isolated Clusters, System Stability +1

Studies based on the colors and magnitudes in stellar clusters. VII. The distances, distribution in space, and dimensions of 69 globular clusters.

Harlow Shapley · The Astrophysical Journal · 1918 · 86 citations

Photometry, Stellar Clusters, Stellar Structure +2

Two Stellar Systems of a New Kind

Harlow Shapley · Nature · 1938 · 81 citations

Stellar Structure, Stellar Systems

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