This week's famous cousin is my 7th cousin 2x removed Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953), the famous astronomer.
Here is Edwin Hubble's Family Search Family Tree short biography:
When Edwin Powell Hubble was born on 20 November 1889, in Marshfield, Webster, Missouri, United States, his father, John Powell Hubble, was 29 and his mother, Virginia Lee James, was 25. He married Grace Lillian Burke on 28 February 1924, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1953 and lived in Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States in 1918. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1953, at the age of 63, his occupation is listed as astronomer, observatory in Los Angeles, California, United States. He died on 28 September 1953, in San Marino, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 63.
The Wikipedia profile for Edwin Hubble is here.
Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology.
Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He used the strong direct relationship between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period (discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt[) for scaling galactic and extragalactic distances.
Hubble confirmed in 1929 that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from Earth, a behavior that became known as Hubble's law, although it had been proposed two years earlier by Georges Lemaître. The Hubble law implies that the universe is expanding. A decade before, the American astronomer Vesto Slipher had provided the first evidence that the light from many of these nebulae was strongly red-shifted, indicative of high recession velocities.[[13]
Hubble's name is most widely recognized for the Hubble Space Telescope, which was named in his honor, with a model prominently displayed in his hometown of Marshfield, Missouri.
Here is the Relative Finder chart showing my relationship to Edwin Hubble:
My most recent common ancestors with 7th cousin 2x removed Edwin Hubble are my 8th great-grandparents Joseph Benjamin (1633-1704) and Sarah Clark (1638-1716).
Are you related to Edwin Hubble? Check out his profile on the FamilySearch Family Tree and click the "View Relationship" link at the top of the page. Note that you have to have your profile connected to the FamilySearch Family Tree in order for this to work.
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