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Edwin Hubble, (1889-1953)

Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer and cosmologist, whose discovery of galaxies other than the Milky Way changed our understanding of the universe. Hubble was born in 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri. He studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Chicago, and in 1910 he accepted a Rhodes scholarship to study in England at Oxford University. On his return to America he studied at Yerke...

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