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