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Bookmark or Share- The Great Debate - 100 years later - Astronomy MagazineWhen it comes to polarized opinions, astronomers can be just as guilty as the rest of us. A century ago, the energetic and ambitious scientist Harlow Shapley and the concise and clear-headed...
- The 'Great Debate': What Really Happened - Astronomy Picture of the DayThe meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington on 26 April 1920, at which Harlow Shapley of Mount Wilson and Heber D. Curtis of Lick Observatory both gave talks under the title "The Scale of the Universe", has passed into the literature as "The Great Debate".[1]
- Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? — Harlow Shapley ProjectDrawing on one of the most famous debates in scientific history, Deborah Shapley poses the question whether head-to-head conflict is a model that benefits science.
- The Great Debate of 1920: how it changed astronomyIn 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis came together to take part in the Great Debate about the scale of the Universe. But what ultimately, was astronomy's Great Debate about, and how did it change the way we look at the Universe?
- How Edwin Hubble won the Great Debate - Astronomy MagazineIn 1920 a debate took place between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, a leading advocate of the island universe theory and the newly appointed director of the Allegheny Observatory at the ...
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