Robert Smith
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Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Author of The Expanding Universe: Astronomy’s Great Debate 1900-1931 (1982), The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology, and Politics (1989), and The Hubble Cosmos: 25 Years of New Vistas in Space (2014, with David DeVorkin).
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Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as the leading observational cosmologist of the 20th century. Hubble was the son of John Powell Hubble, a businessman who worked in the insurance…
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