Who proposed the velocity-distance relation two years before Hubble's 1929 confirmation?
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Georges Lemaitre
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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
Hubble remained on staff at Mount Wilson Observatory until what year?
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1953
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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
Who was Edwin Hubble's wife?
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Grace Burke
What numbered asteroid is named for Edwin Hubble?
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2069 Hubble