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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 2 November 1885
- Died
- 20 October 1972
- Place of birth
- Nashville
- Place of death
- Boulder
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Harlow
- Family name
- Shapley
- Spouse
- Martha Betz Shapley
- Child
- Mildred Shapley Matthews, Willis H. Shapley, Alan Horace Shapley, Lloyd Shapley, Carl Betz Shapley
- Sibling
- John Shapley
- Field of work
- astronomy, climatology
- Occupation
- astronomer, university teacher, meteorologist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Prix Jules Janssen, Henry Draper Medal, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Bruce Medal, Rumford Prize, Janssen Medal, Franklin Medal, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- academic thesis
- The orbits of eighty-seven eclipsing binaries---a summary
- archives at
- Harvard Library
- described by source
- Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference
- doctoral advisor
- Henry Norris Russell
- doctoral student
- Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, Carl Keenan Seyfert, James Cuffey
- educated at
- University of Missouri, Princeton University
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Astronomical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Harlow Shapley
- place of burial
- North Cemetery
- professorship
- professor
- student
- Georges Lemaître
- student of
- Frederick Hanley Seares
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