At Oxford, Edwin Hubble studied at which college?

At Oxford, Edwin Hubble studied at The Queen’s College. He arrived in 1910 as one of the earliest Rhodes Scholars from the United States, after earning a bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago.

Hubble did not initially study astronomy there. To honor a promise made to his dying father, he pursued jurisprudence, later adding literature and Spanish. He earned a bachelor’s degree in jurisprudence and eventually received a master’s degree from Oxford. His Oxford years therefore form an important contrast with his later career as an observational astronomer.

The college is often confused with the University of Oxford as a whole, or with famous Oxford colleges such as Balliol and Magdalen. The Queen’s College is a distinct constituent college, founded in 1341. Hubble later maintained a connection with it and was elected an honorary fellow in 1948.

After returning to the United States, Hubble resumed astronomy at the University of Chicago and completed graduate work before joining Mount Wilson Observatory. His later observations helped establish that galaxies exist beyond the Milky Way and that the universe is expanding.