Edwin Hubble Facts
Edwin Hubble Facts
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| Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri but moved to Wheaton, Illinois in 1900. |
| He was a gifted athlete who played baseball, football, basketball and ran track in both high school and college and led The University of Chicago to its first basketball conference title in 1907. |
| He earned a B.S. in mathematics and astronomy from the University of Chicago in 1910 and spent three years at The Queen's College, Oxford after earning a bachelors as one of the university's first Rhodes Scholars. |
| Hubble's father had moved the family to Louisville, Ky in 1909 and when he died in 1913, Hubble returned from England to care for his mother and three younger siblings. |
| He taught Spanish, physics and mathematics at New Albany High School in New Albany, In for a year before deciding to return to follow his dream and become a professional astronomer. |
| He studied astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago where he received his PhD in 1917 with a dissertation entitled Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae. |
| In 1917 Hubble volunteered for the U.S. Army and was assigned to the 86th Division. |
| In 1919 George Ellery Hale offered him a staff position at Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, California. |
| Hubble was the first astronomer to use Mount Palomar's giant 200-inch reflector telescope. |
| In 1922-23 Hubble made his greatest contribution to the field of astronomy when he proved that the Milky Way was not the only galaxy in the universe. |
| Hubble's expanding universe theory changed the scientific view of the cosmos forever. |
| On March 6, 2008, the U.S. Postal Service released a stamp honoring Hubble with the citation that reads "pioneer of the distant stars." |
| Had he not died suddenly in 1953, Hubble would have won that year's Novel Prize in Physics. |
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