Ron Voller

Shapley's Key Role in Hubble's Discovery

“How Edwin Hubble Expanded the Universe” is a cover story in Astronomy Now magazine.

Martha Shapley - Astronomer

Martha Betz Shapley was known as First Lady of the Harvard College Observatory during the 32 years her husband Harlow was its Director. “The friendship and hospitality she extended to members of the Harvard astronomical family…was one of the highest experiences of my younger days,” wrote Leo Goldberg on her death in 1981.