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What device did Hubble develop for studying bombs and low-velocity projectiles in flight?
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high-speed clock camera
Which branch did Hubble lead at the Ballistic Research Laboratory in World War II?
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External Ballistics Branch
Who proposed the velocity-distance relation two years before Hubble's 1929 confirmation?
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Georges Lemaitre
Who discovered the Cepheid period-luminosity relation that Hubble used for distance scaling?
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
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What device did Hubble develop for studying bombs and low-velocity projectiles in flight?
Answer
high-speed clock camera
Which branch did Hubble lead at the Ballistic Research Laboratory in World War II?
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External Ballistics Branch
Who proposed the velocity-distance relation two years before Hubble's 1929 confirmation?
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Georges Lemaitre
Who discovered the Cepheid period-luminosity relation that Hubble used for distance scaling?
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Which prize did Edwin Hubble receive in 1924?
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Newcomb Cleveland Prize
After World War I, Hubble spent a year at which English university?
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University of Cambridge
At Oxford, Edwin Hubble studied at which college?
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The Queen's College
For which physicist was Hubble a student laboratory assistant?
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Robert Millikan
What sport did Hubble coach at New Albany High School?
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basketball