What university awarded Edwin Hubble an honorary doctorate in 1931?
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University of Oxford
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What university awarded Edwin Hubble an honorary doctorate in 1931?
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University of Oxford
What was the title of Hubble's 1929 paper on the velocity-distance relation?
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A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae
From which university did Edwin Hubble earn his bachelor's degree?
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University of Chicago
What sport did Edwin Hubble play at the University of Chicago?
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Basketball
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What was the title of Hubble's 1929 paper on the velocity-distance relation?
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A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae
From which university did Edwin Hubble earn his bachelor's degree?
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University of Chicago
What sport did Edwin Hubble play at the University of Chicago?
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Basketball
What was Edwin Hubble's middle name?
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Powell
In what year did Edwin Hubble die?
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1953
What name did Hubble give to his classification diagram for galaxies?
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Tuning fork diagram
How old was Edwin Hubble when he died?
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63
What was Edwin Hubble's academic major (or degree) from the University of Chicago?
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Mathematics and astronomy
Which of Hubble's papers announced that the spiral nebulae are extragalactic?
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A Spiral Nebula as a Stellar System
What prestigious scholarship did Hubble win to study at Oxford?
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Rhodes Scholarship