Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who totally changed our perspective on the universe. As a young man he got a Rhodes scholarship in law from Oxford and spent a year as a lawyer. He soon found out that he was bored with law so he served in the army during WWI rising to the rank of major. Afterwards he studied hard at Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago and got a PhD in astronomy. He then got a job at the Mount Wilson Observatory where he discovered many things.
Edwin Hubble’s discoveries:
- There are other galaxies besides ours
- Hubble’s Law- the universe is expanding
- Classification system for stars
- Discovered the asteroid 1373 Cincinnati
Had Edwin Hubble not died in 1953, he would have received the Nobel prize for physics. Hubble will always be remembered as the “Father of Observational Cosmology”.
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