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SHAPLEY DIES

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Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Emeritus, died last night in Boulder, Colo...at the age of 86. One of the world's foremost astronomers. Shapley helped develop the "big bang" theory, the current dominant theory of the structure of the universe.

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