Edwin Powell Hubble

Timeline
Born in Marshfield,
1889
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Missouri on November 20

Finished his high school

1906
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from Wheaton High School.

1910 Graduated as Bachelor of Science

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from University of Chicago.

1912 Graduated as Bachelor of Arts
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from University of Oxford.

1917 Earned his doctorate in astronomy

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from University of Chicago.

Join the staff at the prestigious

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1919 Mount Wilson Observatory, near

Pasadena, California.
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Demonstrates that galaxies existed

1924 outside Milky Way in his paper,

“Cepheids in Spiral Nebula.” 

1929 Formulates Hubble’s Law, proving

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that Universe is expanding.

1953 Dies at the age of 63 in San

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Marino, California.
 Contributions
• Galaxies beyond our Milky way- resolved several
spiral nebulae(Andromeda nebula) into stars, identified some
Having characteristics identical to a type of variable stars called
Cepheids.

Andromeda galaxy
• Classification of galaxy types- he set up in 1926 a
classification system generally used as the standard.
• Hubble’s law and Expanding universe- “the red
shifts in the spectra of distant galaxies are proportional to
their distance”.
• i.e, the greater the distance of a galaxy from ours, the faster it
recedes. It was proof that the Universe is expanding.
 Honors
• Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 1924
• The Franklin Medal in 1939
• the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical
Society in 1940
• The Hubble Space Telescope- was named for
him.