Journal article

By: Harlow Shapley

Date: February 1918

Source: Shapley, Harlow. "Globular Clusters and the Structure of the Galactic System." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 30, no. 173, February 1918, 42, 46–48, 50–51, 54. Available online at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ (accessed March 12, 2003).

About the Author: Harlow Shapley (1885–1972) was born on a farm near Nashville, Missouri. At age fifteen, Shapley attended a business school in Kansas for several months, then spent a year as a newspaper crime reporter and a police reporter. Wanting more education, he entered the Presbyterian Carthage Collegiate Institute, finishing the equivalent of six years of high school in a year and a half. He next attended the University of Missouri. Intending to major in journalism but finding that department not yet...