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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 .
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (December 29, 1814 – 1880) was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea , which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie .
The Edwin Hubble House is located in a residential area of western San Marino, on the east side of Woodstock Road near its cul-de-sac end. It is a two-story Mission Revival house, designed by Los Angeles architect Joseph Kucera and completed in 1925. The house is not of architectural significance; it is similar to many homes built in the Los ...
Notable astronomers who conducted research at Yerkes include Albert Michelson, [45] Edwin Hubble (who did his graduate work at Yerkes and for whom the Hubble Space Telescope was named), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (for whom the Chandra Space Telescope was named), Ukrainian-American astronomer Otto Struve, [3] Dutch-American astronomer Gerard ...
Ernst Karl Abbe; Charles Greeley Abbot; Niels Henrik Abel; Antonio Abetti; Giorgio Abetti; Abu Abdullah al-Bakri; Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī; Charles Hitchcock Adams
William Herschel lived most of his life in the town of Slough, then in Buckinghamshire (now in Berkshire). He died in the town and was buried under the tower of the nearby St Laurence's Church, Upton-cum-Chalvey. [110] Herschel's epitaph is: Coelorum perrupit claustra (He broke through the barriers of the heavens) [111]
It was the only asteroid discovery made by famous American astronomer Edwin Hubble, while observing distant galaxies at Mount Wilson Observatory in California on 30 August 1935. [1] The rather spherical X-type asteroid has a rotation period of 5.3 hours. [3] It was named for the Cincinnati Observatory. [1]
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