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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 ...

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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. Hubbell (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Hubbell is a surname of English, Norman and Germanic origin. Hubbell is the 5667th most common family name in the United States according to the U.S. Census. Genealogical sources indicate a Hubbell residing in Worcestershire, England circa 1530.

  5. Template:Family name explanation - Wikipedia

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    Template:Family name explanation is placed at the top of a biographical article to explain to readers which part of a name is the family name. It is used by the wrappers {{Family name footnote}} and {{Family name hatnote}}. More rarely, it may be invoked directly, e.g. for use within a larger footnote about a person's name.

  6. 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

  7. C/1937 P1 (Hubble) - Wikipedia

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    Comet Hubble, formally designated C/1937 P1, is the first and only comet discovered by astronomer Edwin Hubble. The comet was already on its outbound flight when it was first spotted in August 1937 as a magnitude 13.5 object in the constellation Sagittarius. [1] [5] It is the fourth comet discovered in 1937. [6]

  8. Georges Lemaître - Wikipedia

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    In 1929, the US astronomer Edwin Hubble published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America showing, based on better and more abundant data than what Lemaître had had at his disposal in 1927, that, in the average, galaxies recede at a velocity proportional to their distance from the observer ...

  9. Hubble (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Hubble is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Brian Hubble (born 1978), American painter and illustrator