The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Harlow Shapley

• Who Was Harlow Shapley? Ideas of Cosmology [AIP]
• Bruce Medal biography [Astronomical Society of the Pacific]
• Short biography [Economicexpert.com]
• Wikipedia (links to sites about the Great Debate)
• The Shapley-Curtis Debate in 1920 [NASA]
• The 1920 Shapley-Curtis Discussion: Background, Issues, and Outcome by Virginia Trimble [NASA]
• Obituary, by Z. Copal, 1972 Nature [NASA]
• Letter from Linus Pauling to Harlow Shapley, 1946/07/03 The Valley Library [Oregon State University]
• Creative Mind: The Theoretical Scientist as Creator, Harlow Shapley, 2008 (link to audio file of lecture) WGBH Forum [WGBH]
• Harlow Shapley Scientists and the Franklin Institute: Making their Cases [Franklin Institute]
• Commentary: Academic Freedom, Free Speech, and Harlow Shapley, by Jim Brainerd, 2005/02/23 (more about Immanuel Velikovsky than about Shapley) The Astrophysics Spectator [Astrophysicsspectator.com]
• Academic Genealogy from the Mathematical Genealogy Project [North Dakota State University]
• Harlow Shapley on the cover of Time, 1935/07/29 [Time Magazine]
• Writings:
  • The Universe and Life, 1923/05 [Harper's]
• An Inventory of Harlow Shapley's Papers [Harvard University Library]
• The Shapely Supercluster, by Richard Powell (brief biographical note) [An Atlas of the Universe]

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