Edwin Powell Hubble's Life

By Saphire

  • Hubble was born.

    Edwin Powell Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. His parents were Virginai Lee James Hubble, and John P. Hubble.

  • Hubble entered gradeschool.

  • Hubble moved to Wheaton.

    Hubble and his family moved first to Evanston, and then to Wheaton (Chicago suburbs) on account of John's work.

  • Edwin graduated from Wheaton High School.

    Edwin graduated from Wheaton High School, excelling in sports, and academics. For his efforts, he was awarded a University of Chicago scholarship.

  • Hubble graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S.

    Hubble's Bachelor of Science was in both astronomy, and mathematics.

  • Hubble was awarded the Rhodes Schaolarship.

  • Hubble completed his studying on jurisprudence.

    After studying jurisprudence at Queen's College at Oxford University in England, Hubble completed the two year course.

  • Hubble began practicing law.

    Edwin returned to the United States and began practicing law in Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Hubble returned to college for astronomy.

    Within a year, Hubble became bored with his new career of law, so he returned to the University of Chicago for his doctorate inastronomy.

  • World War 1 was declared.

  • Hubble was invited to join the Mount Wilson Staff.

    Hubble was invited to join the Mount Wilson Staff after getting his doctorate in astronomy

  • Hubble joined the military.

    Because World War 1 began, Hubble delayed the offer of joining the Mount Wilson staff once he received his doctorate in astronomy.

  • World War 1 ended

  • Hubble was discharged from the military.

    Hubble attained the rank of major, and then was discharged from the military.

  • Hubble identified a star called a Cepheid.

    Hubble's first notable achievement at Mount Wilson was the confirmation of the existence of galaxies outside the Milky Way. From observations made in October 1923, Hubble was able to identify a type of variable star known as a Cepheid in the Andromeda galaxy. By using information about the relationship between brightness, luminosity and the distances of Cepheid stars in our galaxy, Hubble was able to estimate the distance to them.

  • Hubble got married.

    Hubble married Grace Burke Leib.

  • Hubble introduced system of classifying galaxies.

    Returning to Mount Wilson after the war, Hubble continued his observations of galaxies. In 1925 he introduced a system for classifying them at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union; according to this system, galaxies were either "regular" or "irregular." The system used to classify galaxies today is still based on Hubble's structure.

  • World War 2 began

  • World War 2 ended

  • Hubble died.

    Edwin Hubble died from cerebral thrombosis ( stroke).

  • A famous telescope was named after Hubble.

    The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1990. Its namesake is to honor Edwin Powell Hubble.