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Shapley, Harlow

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Bornnear Nashville, Missouri, USA, 2 November 1885

DiedBoulder, Colorado, USA, 20 October 1972

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, 92697-4575, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  2. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Horace A. Smith

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Trimble, V., Smith, H.A. (2014). Shapley, Harlow. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1266

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