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Helen Sawyer Biography and Timeline

Follow Helen Sawyer through 1 dated historical records for United States of America.

Helen Sawyer, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1927

Shapley-Sawyer Concentration Class

Science / Astronomy

Harlow Shapley and Helen Sawyer began categorizing clusters according to the degree of concentration the system has toward the core. The most concentrated clusters were identified as Class I, with successively diminishing concentrations ranging to Class XII. This became known as the Shapley-Sawyer Concentration Class

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