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At the beginning of this year, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory and Paine professor of astronomy at Harvard since 1921, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the structure and dimensions of the galactic system. On May 11 he will deliver the George Darwin Lecture of the Society, taking as his subject “Some Structural Features of the Metagalaxy”.
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C., A. Dr. Harlow Shapley. Nature 133, 694–695 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133694a0
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