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Edwin Hubble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He profoundly changed our understanding of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besid...
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Edwin Hubble; 1889 - 1953; ... Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way, and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. ... Hubble was a tall, elegant, athletic, man who at age 30 had an undergraduate degree in astronomy...
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Perhaps more than any other person, Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) expanded our view of the universe. At the dawn of the 20th century, most astronomers thought that the Milky Way Galaxy was the universe, and it measured only a few thousand light-years across.
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Explore the life of Edwin Hubble, the man who was first able to show that the universe is expanding, and is considered my many to be the father of observational cosmology. ... - Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953)
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Edwin Hubble went to Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, where he did not continue his studies in astronomy, but instead studied law. At this point in his life, he had not yet made up his mind about pursuing a scientific career.
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Astronmer Edwin Hubble in 1931 ... ; Edwin Hubble; He saw a vast universe beyond the Milky Way, then found the first hints that it began with a Big Bang; By MICHAEL D. LEMONICK; 21st Century: What's Next?; Test-Based Society: The IQ Meritocracy;
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