Information about Heber D. Curtis
Biography from the Bentley Historical Library The Shapley – Curtis Debate on the Scale of the Universe in 1920
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Heber D. Curtis
Recruitment of Heber Doust Curtis in 1930
Turns out Heber Curtis did not want the job as director (and in fact, turned down the headhunter from Michigan at least once). Yet on a trip through Ann Arbor, the President of the University and Dean of LSA prevailed upon him (with “foot, horse, and guns” – a phrase he may have picked up
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HEBER DOUST CURTIS
DIRECTOR 1930-41 Heber Doust Curtis was born in Muskegon, Michigan on June 27, 1872. He attended the University of Michigan but did not study the sciences. While teaching Latin and Greek, he became interested in astronomy as an amateur and volunteered at the Lick Observatory in California. After taking a teaching position in mathematics and
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