What was Harlow Shapley's profession?
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Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer and a professor of astronomy at Harvard College Observatory from 1921 to 1952. He was the first person to accurately measure the distance to the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and he also discovered that our galaxy is much larger than previously thought.
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