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OBSERVATORY DIRECTOR IS AWARDED MISSOURI DEGREE

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Columbia, Mo., June 8.--Dr. Harlow Shapley, head of the Harvard Observatory, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws by Missouri University here today. Dr. Shapley received his A.B. degree at Missouri in 1910 and in the following year was also awarded an A.M. In 1914 he received his PhD. at Princeton, and in the same year took up an astronomer's post at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California.

He held this position until 1921, when he came East to assume the direction of the Harvard Observatory. He had been especially noted during his term of office at Harvard for his researches in photometry and spectroscopy. Among the scientific and philosophical societies of which Dr. Shapley is a member are the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Royal Astronomical Society.

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