Edwin Hubble

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to do his work so well. Whether it was devotion to his family or to his work. It started when he was just a youth; he was in a family of seven children and was expected to earn money for the family (Whitney 222).
Hubble’s devotion was mental and also physical. Hubble worked at Mount Wilson for most of his career. Here, “he spent hundreds of bone-numbing hours in the observer’s cage at Mount Wilson telescope. Anyone who has spent time in ‘the cage’ knows what an extraordinary effort of will it can demand: total concentration, and an ability to suppress shivers in the constant chill, lest you vibrate the telescope.” (Smoot 42).
Hubble’s hard work and long hours were recognized by his fellow astronomers. The author of Wrinkles in Time, George Smoot, said, “Night after night Hubble photographed the nebulae, devoting himself to his goal so completely that he was perceived as arrogant and elitist” (44).
Unable to complete his any tasks on his own, Hubble hired an assistant. He ...

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at the age of eight. On his eighth birthday party he spent the night with his grandfather star gazing (Freidman 16). When he was twelve years old he would ask his parents to seep outside and look at the stars at midnight with his friend Sam Shelton (18). His grandfather asked Hubble an astronomical question, and Hubble answered it so cleverly that his grandfather had is answer published in a newspaper (Whitney 222). This was the start of his great accomplishments to come.
When Hubble was thirty years old, he worked at Wilson’s Observatory to use the newly built 100-in telescope (Christianson 110). He noticed that there were faint emissions from nebulae and that he might be able ...

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