Shapley
Americannoun
noun
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Ellen Shapley thought she did all her homework ahead of a planned trip to Egypt in January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“Here is the letter that destroyed my universe,” Shapley remarked.
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
Shapley discovered that the globular clusters were not centered around the solar neighborhood but rather about a distant region of the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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