Honors
Awards
- Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1926)
- Prix Jules Janssen of the French Astronomical Society (1933)
- Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1933)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1934)
- Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1939)
- Franklin Medal (1945)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1950)
Named after him
- The crater Shapley on the Moon
- Asteroid 1123 Shapleya
- Shapley Supercluster
- Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureships In Astronomy, American Astronomical Society
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