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Shapley
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Shapley	has greatest gaffe ignored Humason's observations of Cepheids in Andromeda galaxy
	has associate Russel as his mentor
	has associate Hale as director of Mt. Wilson
	has associate van Maanen as a collegue at Mt. Wilson
	has degree 1911 : B.Sc. astronomy, University of Missouri 1913 : PhD. Princeton University ("Eclipsing binary stars")
	has name Harlow Shapley
	has greatest achievement structure and scale of our galaxy determined from accurate globular cluster distances
	has career 1914-1920 : Mt. Wilson 1921-1952 : Director Harvard College Observatory 1952-1972 : Emeritus
	has orbituary Kopal, Z. : 1972, Nature 240, 429.
	has death date 20 October 1972
	has birth date 2 November 1885
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