Edwin Arthur Hubble

Edwin Arthur Hubble
Birthdate:	1876
Birthplace:	Camberwell
Death:
Immediate Family:	Son of James Nicholas Hubble and Sophia Jane Keast Husband of Elizabeth Louisa Spier Father of Private; Private; Private and Private Brother of Alfred Hubble; Mary Jane Hubble; Charles James Hubble; Ada Lucy Hubble; Miriam Esther Hubble and 2 others

Managed by:	Martin Severin Eriksen
Last Updated:	April 26, 2022

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Elizabeth Louisa Spier

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James Nicholas Hubble

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Sophia Jane Keast

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Alfred Hubble

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Mary Jane Hubble

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Charles James Hubble

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Ada Lucy Hubble

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Miriam Esther Hubble

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About Edwin Arthur Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer who profoundly changed our understanding of the universe by demonstrating the existence of galaxies other than our own, the Milky Way.

He also discovered that the degree of "Doppler shift" (specifically "redshift") observed in the light spectra from other galaxies increased in proportion to a particular galaxy's distance from Earth.

This relationship became known as Hubble's law, and helped establish that the universe is expanding. Hubble has sometimes been incorrectly credited with discovering the Doppler shift in the spectra of galaxies, but this had already been observed earlier by Vesto Slipher, whose data Hubble used.

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