Article ID: CBB000032713

To the rescue of the learned: The Asylum Fellowship Plan at Harvard, 1938-1940 (1984)

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Description On Harlow Shapley's activities in rescuing academics from Nazi Germany in the pre-war period.


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Authors & Contributors
Palmeri, JoAnn
Baratas Díaz, Luis Alfredao
Bartolucci, Jorge
Belkora, Leila
Bok, Bart J.
Borden, Carla M.
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Sky and Telescope
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Publishers
University of Oklahoma
Anthropos
Beck
Institute of Physics Publishing
Smithsonian Institution Press
Yale University Press
Concepts
Refugees
Science
Astronomy
Galaxies; nebulae
Astrophysics
Cross-national interaction
People
Shapley, Harlow
Curtis, Heber Doust
Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelis
Gamow, George
Herschel, William
Huggins, William
Time Periods
20th century
18th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Mexico
British Isles
Institutions
Society for the Protection of Science and Learning
Vienna Circle
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