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Shapley comparison table

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19th century scientist						dead person					a scientist born between 1800 and 1900 AD
astronomer		astronomy				scientist					a scientist specializing in astronomy
Shapley	Harlow Shapley	astronomy	1911 : B.Sc. astronomy, University of Missouri 1913 : PhD. Princeton University ("Eclipsing binary stars")	van Maanen as a collegue at Mt. Wilson	ignored Humason's observations of Cepheids in Andromeda galaxy		19th century scientist	Kopal, Z. : 1972, Nature 240, 429.	structure and scale of our galaxy determined from accurate globular cluster distances			20 October 1972	1914-1920 : Mt. Wilson 1921-1952 : Director Harvard College Observatory 1952-1972 : Emeritus	2 November 1885

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