After World War I, Hubble spent a year at which English university?

After World War I, Edwin Hubble spent a year at the University of Cambridge. The stay followed his military service and helped him reconnect with astronomy after an unusual period of legal and literary study at Oxford.

Hubble had earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, where he studied mathematics and astronomy. As a Rhodes Scholar, however, he spent three years at The Queen’s College, Oxford, studying jurisprudence rather than science. He later returned to astronomy and pursued graduate work at Chicago.

After serving in the U.S. Army during World War I, Hubble spent a year at Cambridge renewing his astronomical studies. The university is sometimes confused with Oxford because both institutions shaped his education and are located in England. Oxford was where he studied earlier; Cambridge was the postwar university associated with his renewed astronomy work.

In 1919, Hubble joined Mount Wilson Observatory in California. There, using powerful telescopes, he investigated nebulae and demonstrated that many were independent galaxies outside the Milky Way. His later work on galaxy distances and redshifts became central to modern observational cosmology.