Edwin Hubble Edwin Powell Hubble was born on the 20 th of November in 1889. He lived in Marshfield, Missouri along with his family. He was said to be a very tall, elegant, and athletic young man. Edwin had a mom, dad, three sisters, and two brothers. His mom and dad were named John Powell and Virginia James Hubble. His sisters were Virginia, Helen, and Lucy Lee.
Edwin’s two brothers were named Henry and William. William died as a student at a college in Wisconsin and Virginia died when she was a very young girl. When Edwin attended high school he got a scholarship to go to the University of Chicago, but, unfortunately he had to share the scholarship with another student. After a few years Edwin decided to try Queens College located in Oxford, but later went back to the University of Chicago for postgraduate work.
Edwin, at age thirty, had an undergraduate degree in astronomy and mathematics, a legal degree as a Rhodes scholar, followed by a PhD in astronomy. Edwin Hubble originally started out as a lawyer. For one year he taught Spanish and mathematics for New Albany High School. He also coached a basketball team. The high school dedicated their yearbook to Edwin Hubble that year.
Finally after teaching at the high school Edwin went to Yerkes Observatory to be an astronomer. He was the very first person to try a two hundred inch telescope. Edwin Hubble served for two years in the military. Edwin also served in WWI, and met the rank of a major. In 1919, for the rest of his life Edwin would go to and worked at Mount Wilson Observatory in California in. Edwin Hubble had many great accomplishments as an astronomer in his lifetime.
Some of Edwin Hubble’s greatest accomplishments were: Edwin Hubble proposed a classification system for nebulae, which are fuzzy little patches of light that are up in the sky. He discovered a variable star, called the Cepheid. It is located in the Andromeda Nebulae. Edwin Hubble settled decisively the question of the nature of the galaxies. Edwin Hubble’s distribution of galaxies was determined to be homogeneous in distance. Edwin wanted to classify the galaxies according to their content, distance, shape, and pattern of brightness.
By observing redshifts Edwin saw that galaxies were moving away from each other at a rate constant to the distance between them (this is known as Hubble’s Law). But Edwin’s greatest accomplishment was his telescope. His telescope weighed 11, 600 kilograms, or 12. 8 tons. The telescope was named Hubble Space Telescope. It was the most expensive instrument ever constructed for astronomical research.
The cost of the telescope was about 1. 5 billion dollars. Edwin Hubble was a very great astronomer. He discovered many useful things. However, there comes an end to all good things. Edwin Hubble, unfortunately, passed in San Marino, California on September 28, 1953.
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