Harlow Shapley American astronomer
Harlow Shapley is a 86 years old American astronomer from . Harlow Shapley was born on November 02, 1885 (died on October 20, 1972, he was 86 years old) in .
About
No, he died on 10/20/1972, 52 years ago. He was 86 years old when he died. He died in Boulder and buried in North Cemetery .
Family
Wife
Children
He had five children, Mildred (100) , Willis (88) , Alan (87) , Lloyd (92, United States mathematician specialist in cooperative game theory co-winner with Alvin E. Roth of the 2012 Swedish Bank's Economics Prize in honor of Alfred Nobel for the Shapley–Gale algorithm for two-sided matching.) and Carl (84) . When his first child, Mildred Shapley Matthews, was born, Harlow Shapley was 29 years old.
Sibling
Harlow Shapley had 1 sibling. John
Awards (9)
Awarded Bruce Medal in 1938 , awarded Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1950 , awarded Janssen Medal in 1939 , awarded Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1933 , awarded Rumford Prize in 1932 ,
Education
He graduated from Princeton University and University Of Missouri
What was Harlow's zodiac sign?Harlow Shapley zodiac sign was scorpio.
Other facts about Harlow Shapley
| AlmaMater | Princeton University, University of Missouri |
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| Place of death | Boulder |
| KnownFor | Sun |
| Nationality | United States |
| Employer | Harvard College Observatory , end time: 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z , start time: 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| Given name | Harlow |
| Professorship | Professor |
| Field of work | Astronomy |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Norris Russell |
| Doctoral student | James Cuffey |
| Country of citizenship | United States Of America |
| Family name | Shapley. Show people with the surname Shapley |
| Student of | Frederick Hanley Seares |
| Member of | National Academy Of Sciences |
| Languages spoken, written or signed | English |
| CiNii author ID (books) | DA02396897 |
| Name in native language | Harlow Shapley |
| Date of death | 1972-10-20T00:00:00Z |
| Archives at | Harvard Library , described at URL: https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/4/resources/4009 |
| Doctoral thesis | The Orbits Of Eighty-seven Eclipsing Binaries---a Summary , dissertation submitted to: Princeton University , URL: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1913ApJ....38..158S/abstract , full work available at URL: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/1913ApJ....38..158S/ADS_PDF , publication date: 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z , doctoral advisor: Henry Norris Russell |
| Place of burial | North Cemetery , coordinate location: Point(-71.934777777 42.831611111) |
