Labels:text | font | document | paper | black and white | letter OCR: 1885 Born on November 2 in Nashville, Missouri. 1902 Assists on the production of a newspaper for 2 years in Kansas City, Missouri. 1904 Attends Carthage Presbyterian Collegiate Institute, Missouri, where he prepares for university. 1906 Takes up astronomy to fill in time before enrolling as a student at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism. He does not return to journalism, however, but continues to study astronomy. 1909 Completes a 3-year degree course at Laws Observatory, California. 1911 After working as a teaching assistant at Laws Observatory, Shapley moves to Princeton University, New Jersey, to work for Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957). 1911-14 Examines eclipsing binary stars with the American astronomer Henry Norris Russell. Shapley shows that Cepheid variable stars a ...
