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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.
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.
Feb 22, 2024 · The Great Debate was finally over, after centuries of speculation. The conclusion was as amazing as it was revolutionary: We live in a huge Universe, our Milky Way being one among billions of other galaxies spread across the empty vastness of space.
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...
The Great Debaters is a 2007 American historical drama film directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by Robert Eisele and based on a 1997 article for American Legacy by Tony Scherman. The film follows the trials and tribulations of the Wiley College debate team in 1935 Texas.
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]
100 years ago, astronomers Heber Curtis and Harlow Shapley debated the structure of the universe, in an encounter remembered by historians as "The Great Debate."
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