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Milton Humason

American astronomer

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association with Hubble

  • Edwin Hubble
    In Edwin Hubble

    …by another Mount Wilson astronomer, Milton Humason. Humason measured the spectral shifts of the galaxies (and in so doing built on the pioneering studies of the Lowell Observatory astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher), and Hubble focused on determining their distances. In 1929 Hubble published his first paper on the relationship between…

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