Image credits: Harlow Shapley ca 1940, Frank Hogg, AIP/ESVA; One-Room Schoolhouse, AIP/ESVA; Plaskett Lecture (1935) Fig. 1 Shapley Galaxy Model; Photo Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, by Trevor Dobson CC BY-NCC-ND.2.O.

Notes

1/   Astronomy Now is “the UK’s biggest astronomy magazine.” It can be read on tablets and phones as part AN’s multimedia hub. Read this article by flipping pages of the November issue at https://shop.astronomynow.com/product/an-november-2024/

All issues are at https://astronomynow.com/magazine/

 2/   Ron Voller is the author of The Muleskinner and the Stars (2015), and Hubble, Humason and the Big Bang (2021). His projects are at http://ronvoller.com.  For his podcast Bang! Goes the Universe he interviewed Deborah about her grandmother Martha Shapley. See harlowshapley.org.

3/ Gingerich, Owen, Shapley, Harlow, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 12, pp 345-352, Scribners, NY, 1975.