Great Debate (astronomy) - Wikipedia
The Great Debate, also called the Shapley–Curtis Debate, was held on 26 April 1920 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis. It concerned the nature of so-called spiral nebulae and the size of the Universe.
How Edwin Hubble won the Great Debate - MSN
The "Great Debate" of 1920. In 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 ...
The Great Debate of 1920: how it changed astronomy - BBC …
What was the Curtis-Shapley debate of 1920 debate about, and how did it change astronomy? A look back at the historic Great Debate on spiral nebulae.
The Great Debate - 100 years later - Astronomy Magazine
Apr 25, 2020 · A century ago, the energetic and ambitious scientist Harlow Shapley and the concise and clear-headed astronomy professor Heber Curtis came head-to-head in what is now known as the Great Debate.
The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 - Astronomy Picture of the Day
What the Great Debate was, how it was resolved, and why it was important. A subjective abstract in three short paragraphs. Published version of the 'Great Debate.' This is a reprint of the texts of Great Debate published in 1921 in the Bulletin of the …
The 'Great Debate': What Really Happened - Astronomy Picture of the Day
The 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]
Astronomy’s Great Debate foreshadowed today’s view of the …
Apr 24, 2020 · Heretics who disagreed had long been ridiculed— until science staged what became known as the Great Debate, on April 26, 100 years ago. On that date, American astronomers Harlow Shapley and...
Why the `Great Debate' Was Important - Astronomy Picture of the Day
Although the `Great Debate' is important to different people for different reasons, it is a clear example of humanity once again striving to find its place within the cosmic order. In the debate, Shapley and Curtis truly argued over the ``Scale of the Universe," as the debate's title suggests.
Centennial of the Great Debate: From "Scale of the Universe" to …
Apr 27, 2020 · In what is now called the Great Debate, Heber Curtis and Harlow Shapley gave evidence for different views about whether our Sun is in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and, more famously, whether other galaxies exist outside of our own.
The ‘Great Debate’: What Really Happened - M. A. Hoskin, 1976
Shane of the University of California (Berkeley) wrote to Curtis on 3 December 1923 about “the famous debate”, and Curtis in reply on the 10th again referred to “our memorable set-to” (Michigan University Archives).