Edwin Hubble, American Astronomer

Posted by Tel Asiado Nov 20, 2008

This day, November 20 (1889 - 1953), Edwin Hubble is born.

Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer who changed the understanding of the nature of the universe. He demonstrated the existence of other galaxies aside from the Milky Way. He also discovered that the degree of redshift as obserbed in the light coming from a galaxy increased in proportion to the distance of that galaxy from the Milky Way. This is know as Hubble's Law.

Alongside Hubble's law and Redshift, he was also known for the Big Bang and Hubble sequence.

Here's a full article of Edwin Hubble's brief biography.