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As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Edwin Hubble was an exceptional boxer. His boxing abilities attracted the attention of a promoter who wanted to train him to fight the contemporary world heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. Hubble, however, resisted the temptations of the boxing toon meer ring and instead became a Rhodes scholar. He practiced law for a short time, and in 1914 he found his niche in astronomy, attending the Yerkes Observatory for graduate work. In 1919 Hubble became an astronomer at the Mt. Wilson Observatory, where he remained until 1948. From 1948 to 1953, he was an astronomer at Mt. Palomar Observatory. Hubble's research on galaxies led to his conclusion that galaxies are actually swarms of hundreds of billions of stars. Using his research and that of others (principally Milton Humason and Vesto M. Slipher), Hubble established the relation between redshift and distance, which showed that the universe is expanding. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Bevat de namen: Hubble, Edwin Hubble, Edwin Hubble, Edwin P. Hubble

Fotografie: Edwin Hubble [credit: Photograph by Margaret Harwood, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives]

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The realm of the nebulae (1936) 59 exemplaren

The Radio Listener's Week-end Book (1950) 4 exemplaren

The observational approach to cosmology (1937) 3 exemplaren

The nature of science, and other lectures (Huntington Library publications) (1954) 2 exemplaren

The nature of science and other lectures (1977) 2 exemplaren

American Life in Literature, Vol 1 1 exemplaar

Voyage dans le cosmos 1 exemplaar

Voyage dans le cosmos, rémanents de supernova 1 exemplaar

Voyage dans le cosmos, nébuleuse planétaire 1 exemplaar

Voyage dans le cosmos, galaxie 1 exemplaar

The Edwin Hubble papers : previously unpublished manuscripts on the extragalactic nature of spiral nebulae (1990) 1 exemplaar

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Readings in Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy: Physics 361-01 Cosmology, Spring Semester 1995 (1995) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam: Hubble, Edwin Powell
Geboortedatum: 1889-11-20
Overlijdensdatum: 1953-09-28
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Marshfield, Missouri, USA
Plaats van overlijden: San Marino, California, USA
Woonplaatsen: Wheaton, Illinois, USA
Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
New Albany, Indiana, USA
Pasadena, California, USA
Opleiding: University of Chicago (BS|1910) (PhD|1917)
The Queen's College, Oxford
Beroepen: astronomer
cosmologist
Organisaties: University of Chicago
Mount Wilson Observatory
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Bruce Medal (1938)
Franklin Medal (1939)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1940)
Legion of Merit (1946)
Rhodes Scholar
Hubble Space Telescope (toon alle 10)
Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1924)
Asteroid namesake "2069 Hubble"
Crater on Moon named in his honor
Hall of Famous Missourians (2003)

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The Realm of the Nebulae door Edwin Powell Hubble

No modern astronomer made a more profound contribution to our understanding of the cosmos than did Edwin Hubble, who first conclusively demonstrated that the universe is expanding. Basing his theory on the observation of the change in distanct galaxies, called red shift, Hubble showed that this is a Doppler effect, or alteration in the wavelength of light, resulting from the rapid motion of celestial objects away from Earth. In 1935, Hubble described his principal observations and conclusions in the Silliman lectures at Yale University. These lectures were published the following year as "The Realm of the Nebulae," which quickly became a classic work.… (meer)

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