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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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos

Incluye los nombres: Hubble, Edwin Hubble, Edwin Hubble, Edwin P. Hubble

Créditos de la imagen: Edwin Hubble [credit: Photograph by Margaret Harwood, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives]

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The realm of the nebulae (1936) 59 copias

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

The observational approach to cosmology (1937) 3 copias

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

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

American Life in Literature, Vol 1 1 copia

Voyage dans le cosmos 1 copia

Voyage dans le cosmos, rémanents de supernova 1 copia

Voyage dans le cosmos, nébuleuse planétaire 1 copia

Voyage dans le cosmos, galaxie 1 copia

The Edwin Hubble papers : previously unpublished manuscripts on the extragalactic nature of spiral nebulae (1990) 1 copia

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Nombre legal: Hubble, Edwin Powell
Fecha de nacimiento: 1889-11-20
Fecha de fallecimiento: 1953-09-28
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Marshfield, Missouri, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento: San Marino, California, USA
Lugares de residencia: Wheaton, Illinois, USA
Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
New Albany, Indiana, USA
Pasadena, California, USA
Educación: University of Chicago (BS|1910) (PhD|1917)
The Queen's College, Oxford
Ocupaciones: astronomer
cosmologist
Organizaciones: University of Chicago
Mount Wilson Observatory
Premios y honores: Bruce Medal (1938)
Franklin Medal (1939)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1940)
Legion of Merit (1946)
Rhodes Scholar
Hubble Space Telescope (mostrar todos 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 por 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.… (más)

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