Harlow Shapley and Red Giant Stars

Extract

In five papers written between 1951 and 1955 Shapley considers the topic of red giant stars and reddish variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds. These works coincide with Shapley's final year as Director at Harvard and the first years of his retirement which extended a full score of years before his death in 1972. They include the following: Magellanic Clouds II (Supergiants/Red Variable Stars in the Small Cloud; January 1951); Magellanic Clouds IV (On Period Frequency Anomalies; February 1952); Magellanic Clouds VII (Star Colors and Luminosities in Five Constellations; March 1953); Magellanic Clouds VIII (On the Populations Characteristics of the Two Clouds; October 1953); and Magellanic Clouds XVI (Infrared Stars and Stellar Evolution; July 1955). These five papers, which appeared originally in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, may be found in the Harvard Reprint Series I as numbers 346, 360, 373, 376, and 425.