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  2. Edwin Hubble - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) [1] was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology .

  3. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    Edwin Hubble (father) [147] Monsignor Lemaître is considered "the Father of the Big Bang" and the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law. Leavitt discovered Cepheid variables, the "Standard Candle" by which Hubble later determined galactic distances. Einstein's general theory of relativity is usually recognized as the theoretic ...

  4. Edwin N. Hubbell - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Nelson Hubbell (August 13, 1815 – February 5, 1897) was an American politician in New York and Michigan who served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867. Biography

  5. Forest Ray Moulton - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Hubble W. D. MacMillan [1] Forest Ray Moulton (April 29, 1872 – December 7, 1952) was an American astronomer. [2] He was the brother of Harold G. Moulton, a ...

  6. Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Hubbell Chapin (December 29, 1814 – 1880) was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea , which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie .

  7. Hubble (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Brian Hubble (born 1978), American painter and illustrator; Douglas Vernon Hubble (1900–1981), British physician; Eddie Hubble (born 1928), American jazz trombonist; Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), American astronomer; George Hubble (1858–1906), Australian politician; Jack Hubble (1881–1965), English cricketer; Jim Hubble (born 1942 ...

  8. Richard C. Tolman - Wikipedia

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    Tolman interpreted astronomical observations in terms of the new cosmology in collaboration with Edwin Hubble. [2] During the 1930s, Tolman obtained solutions to the Einstein field equations describing the static spherically symmetric perfect fluid.

  9. Great Debate (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    Later in the 1920s, Edwin Hubble showed that Andromeda was far outside the Milky Way by measuring Cepheid variable stars, proving that Curtis was correct. [6] It is now known that the Milky Way is only one of as many as an estimated 200 billion (2 × 10 11) [7] to 2 trillion (2 × 10 12) or more galaxies in the observable Universe.

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