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Definition of Edwin hubble
1. Noun. United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edwin Hubble
Literary usage of Edwin hubble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vibrations and Waves by Benjamin Crowell (2002)
"edwin hubble As soon as astronomers began looking at the sky through ... In the
1920's astronomer edwin hubble began studying the Doppler shifts of the ..."
2. The Evolution of Modern Medicine: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale by William Osler (1921)
"By edwin hubble. (Second printing.) EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT AND INDUCTION. Bv Hans
Spemann, Professor Emeritus of Zoology, University of Freiburg im ..."
3. Nonfiction Reading Practice, Grade 2 by Kristen Kunkel (2003)
"It is named for edwin hubble, an American astronomer. The Hubble space telescope
is always moving. It travels 276 miles (444 kilometers) each minute! ..."
4. Putnam's Handbook of Universal History: A Series of Chronological Tables by George Palmer Putnam (1907)
"Dr. edwin hubble announces discovery of new universe at a distance of 700000
light years from the earth. Mar. 7, Alan J. Cobham completes Cape to Cairo ..."
5. The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum by George Kean Sweetnam (2000)
"... Walter Adams, edwin hubble, Michelson, Robert Oppenheimer, and King, but not
Merrill.)30 Solar data from Mount Wilson was important for the ..."
6. The First Nonlinear System of Differential And Integral Calculus by Michael Grossman (2006)
"As another example, consider the interesting, but still disputed, law of Edwin
Hubble: Distant galaxies are receding at speeds in proportion to their ..."
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