| Edwin Hubble was born in 1889 in Mansfield, | | | | Surprisingly as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford |
| Missouri. He lived there with his family | | | | University he studied law, not astronomy. |
| until they moved to Chicago in 1898. | | | | After graduation Edwin went to Louisville |
| | | | Kentucky and started his law practice. Later |
| Edwin attended high school in Chicago where | | | | he realized his dislike for law, and decided |
| he became interested in science and the | | | | to study astronomy at Yerkes Observatory. |
| mysteries of the universe. Two writers that | | | | |
| he admired were Jules Verne and his "20,000 | | | | In 1917 Edwin Hubble earned his post-graduate |
| Leagues under the Sea" and Henry Haggard who | | | | plus doctorate in astronomy from the |
| wrote "King Solomons Mines". | | | | University of Chicago. |
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| After high school Edwin Hubble went to | | | | Hubble while working at California's Mount |
| Illinois State where he succeeded at | | | | Wilson Observatory proved the existence of |
| basketball and boxing, while achieving a | | | | other galaxies by using the Hooker reflecting |
| Bachelor's degree in astronomy and | | | | telescope the Cepheids was outside the Milky |
| mathematics. | | | | Way galaxy. |
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