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Edwin Hubble

By Bobby Chacon & Chris Rowden

Background history

• Hubble lived from 1889-1953• He is widely regarded as the most influential observational

cosmologist of the 20th century• He was born in Marshfield, Missouri• He studied law at Oxford• After a few months he stopped practicing law and started

back on astronomy. Which was considered his first love

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Discoveries

• Discovered there are other galaxies• Discovered that Nebulae were made of stars as well as gas.

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Hubble’s Book

• Hubble published a book called The Observational Approach to Cosmology and The Realm of the Nebulae

• Book was written in 1936

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Contributions to Astronomy

• Found that the Andromeda nebula was actually a galaxy• Found that the Universe was expanding, with farther galaxies

receding faster than nearby ones.

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Death & Legacy

• Hubble died in 1953• Hubble spent most of his later life trying to prove astronomy

as a type of physics• Hubble telescope was named in honor of Edwin Hubble

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References

• www.famousscientists.org/edwin-hubble/• www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/

scientists/edwinhubble.html

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