Shapley
Americannoun
noun
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Messrs. Shapley and Ziegler accomplished all this by using whistleblower laws, by using Congress and the media to bravely expose the misconduct, complete with details and documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow Shapley, who had argued that the Milky Way encompassed the entire universe.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
“Defendant offers no facts to suggest that the information Shapley and Ziegler shared publicly had any prejudicial effect on the grand jury’s decision to return an indictment.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
It underpinned the research of other pioneering astronomers, including Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley, whose work in the years after World War I demolished long-held ideas about our solar system’s place in the cosmos.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Just before World War I, Harlow Shapley of Missouri devised a technique for measuring the distances to the globular clusters, those lovely spherical arrays of stars which resemble a swarm of bees.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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