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Edwin Hubble

1889 - 1953

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Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He used the strong direct relationship between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period (discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt) for scaling galactic and extragalactic distances. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Hubble is the 15th most popular astronomer (down from 12th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from United States (down from 137th in 2019) and the most popular American Astronomer.

Edwin Hubble is most famous for his discovery that the universe is expanding. Hubble discovered this when he found that the light from distant galaxies is shifted towards the red end of the spectrum.

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Among astronomers, Edwin Hubble ranks 15 out of 644. Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, William Herschel, Aristarchus of Samos, Hipparchus, Ulugh Beg, and Ja'far al-Sadiq. After him are Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Ole Rømer, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Carl Sagan, and Avempace.

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Among people born in 1889, Edwin Hubble ranks 9. Before him are Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, António de Oliveira Salazar, Jean Cocteau, Edgar Adrian, and Jawaharlal Nehru. After him are Philip Noel-Baker, Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Arnold J. Toynbee. Among people deceased in 1953, Edwin Hubble ranks 6. Before him are Joseph Stalin, Mary of Teck, Lavrentiy Beria, Sergei Prokofiev, and Ibn Saud. After him are Gerd von Rundstedt, Robert Andrews Millikan, Guccio Gucci, Carol II of Romania, Klement Gottwald, and Emmerich Kálmán.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Hubble ranks 177 out of 20,380. Before him are Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Tupac Shakur (1971), Steve McQueen (1930), Dwayne Johnson (1972), John Fenn (1917), and Priscilla Presley (1945). After him are Vin Diesel (1967), Margaret Brown (1867), Debbie Harry (1945), Stonewall Jackson (1824), Tom Selleck (1945), and Robert Downey Jr. (1965).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Edwin Hubble ranks 1. After him are Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Carl Sagan (1934), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), Vesto Slipher (1875), Asaph Hall (1829), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), and Vera Rubin (1928).

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