Get The Facts About Edwin Hubble

Facts about Edwin Hubble begin with his birth in 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri, where he lived with his family until their move to Chicago in 1898. Here he attended high school.

Facts about Edwin Hubble as a youth included the fact that he was enamored of science and the mysteries of the universe at a very young age. He had absorbed with fascination the writing of Jules Verne and his "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" and of Henry Haggard, who penned "King Solomon's Mines.

Facts about Edwin Hubble the student include his high academic standing and even higher athletic standing. Hubble attended Illinois State where he excelled in basketball and boxing, while earning a Bachelor's degree in astronomy and mathematics.

Edwin Hubble the young man include his stint as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University where, surprisingly he studied law and not astronomy. Upon graduation, Edwin Hubble returned to Louisville Kentucky and set up his law practice but then discovered his distaste for his new occupation, subsequently studying astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory.

Edwin Hubble earned his post-graduate plus earned his doctorate in 1917 in astronomy from the University of Chicago.

Following a tour of duty in the first World War, Edwin Hubble got a job at California's Mount Wilson Observatory, where he made the observation by way of the powerful Hooker reflecting telescope that Cepheids were outside the earth's Milky Way galaxy, and proving the existence of other galaxies.

Edwin Hubble in 1929 formulated Hubble's Law, which led astronomers to a factual way to determine the age of the universe and the proof that it is indeed expanding. This was the same year Edwin Hubble introduced his Hubble telescope. That's a fact.