ABSTRACT
Dr Walter S Adams, then Director of Mt Wilson Observatory, offered one to be tenable at Pasadena; Professor Armin Leuschner of Berkeley recommended for the Martin Kellogg Fellowship at the Lick Observatory. Shapley's first professor, Frederick H Seares, was an outstanding man of his time, who later became a senior staff member and assistant director of Mt Wilson Observatory. The spring of the year 1914 was memorable for Harlow Shapley for much more important reasons. Having received his doctorate from Princeton University, he married Martha Betz, and obtained a position on the staff of Mount Wilson Observatory. By 1920 Shapley was rapidly acquiring national stature. Small wonder that in spite of his youth he was offered, and accepted, the Directorship of the Harvard College Observatory when the latter became vacant on the death of E C Pickering. The Observatory's total staff had risen to about a hundred, making it one of the largest astronomical institutions in the world.
