Edwin Hubble
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had a heart attack at age 59 and died at age 63 of stroke.... (note, ever present pipe.)</p>
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one of most important observational cosmologists of 20th centry.</p>
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Recessional velocity of a galaxy incr. with its distance from the earth....</p>
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Hubble's law. (discov prev by Georges Lemaitre.</p>
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he obtained value for Hubble Constant of 500 km/sec per Mpc (much higher than current estimtate.</p>
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Redshift incr with distance: ...</p>
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based on his own measurements and thost of Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Vesto Slipher and Milton Humason.</p>
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pub by Lemaitre in 1927 2 years before bassedd on data from Hubble etc.</p>
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