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Heber Doust Curtis

(Curtis, Heber Doust, 1872-1942)

Heber Doust Curtis (June 27, 1872 – January 9, 1942) was an American astronomer. He participated in 11 expeditions for the study of solar eclipses, and, as an advocate and theorist that additional galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way, was involved in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate concerning the size and galactic structure of the universe. (From Wikipedia)

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Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972

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Heber Doust Curtis ... June 27, 1872 - January 9, 1942. ([Ann Arbor, Mich.], 1942), by Charles W. Brashares (page images at HathiTrust)
One scientist's religion : from articles by Professor Heber Doust Curtis (Wesley Foundation, 1944), by Heber Doust Curtis, Will Carl Rufus, and Wesley Foundation (University of Michigan) (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Heber Doust Curtis:

Curtis, Heber Doust, 1872-1942: The Scale of the Universe (published as an issue of the Bulletin of the National Research Council, 1921), also by Harlow Shapley (multiple formats at archive.org)

Additional books by Heber Doust Curtis in the extended shelves:

Curtis, Heber Doust, 1872-1942: Biographical and bibliographical record of the staff of the Department of Astronomy to November 1, 1941. ([Ann Arbor], 1941), also by University of Michigan. Astronomy Department (page images at HathiTrust)
Curtis, Heber Doust, 1872-1942: Definitive determination of the orbit of comet 1898 I. (Verlag der Astronomischen nanchrichten, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
Curtis, Heber Doust, 1872-1942: Methods of silvering mirrors ([San Francisco?], 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)
Curtis, Heber Doust, 1872-1942: One scientist's religion : from articles by Professor Heber Doust Curtis (Wesley Foundation, 1944), also by Will Carl Rufus and Wesley Foundation (University of Michigan) (page images at HathiTrust)
Curtis, Heber Doust, 1872-1942: Studies of the nebulae made at the Lick observatory, University of California, at Mount Hamilton, California, and Santiago, Chile. ([University of California press], 1918), also by Lick Observatory, William Hammond Wright, Ralph Elmer Wilson, J. H. Moore, and William Wallace Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)

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