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Edwin Hubble by Gale E. Christianson (1995, Hardcover) 
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Edwin Hubble by Gale E. Christianson (1995, Hardcover)

Author: Gale E. Christianson
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 1995-08-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0374146608
ISBN-13: 9780374146603
Product ID: EPID136644
Description: Tall, handsome, and charismatic, Edwin Hubble moved as easily around circles of celebrity as through the halls of science. He was courted by the cream of Hollywood society -- Frank Capra, Anita Loos, Charlie Chaplin -- and was friendly w...
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Synopsis
Tall, handsome, and charismatic, Edwin Hubble moved as easily around circles of celebrity as through the halls of science. He was courted by the cream of Hollywood society -- Frank Capra, Anita Loos, Charlie Chaplin -- and was friendly with the California emigre community, which included Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Sergey Eisenstein. This volume is at once a revealing portrait of scientific genius, an incisive, engaging history of ideas, and a shimmering evocation of what we see when gazing at the stars.

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Publication Date:1995-08-01

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Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:26.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Born in 1889 and reared in the village of Marshfield, Missouri, Edwin Powell Hubble - star athlete, Rhodes Scholar, military officer, astronomer - became one of the towering figures in twentieth-century science. Hubble worked with the great 100-inch Hooker telescope at California's Mount Wilson Observatory, and made a series of discoveries that revolutionized humanity's vision of the cosmos. In 1923 he was able to confirm the existence of other nebulae, or what are now called galaxies, beyond our own Milky Way. By the end of the decade, he had proven that the universe is expanding, thus laying the very cornerstone of the "Big Bang" theory of creation. It was Hubble who developed the elegant scheme by which the galaxies are classified as ellipticals and spirals, and it was Hubble who first provided reliable evidence that the universe is homogenous, the same in all directions as far as the telescope can see. An incurable Anglophile with a penchant for tweed jackets, knickers, and English briars, Hubble, together with his brilliant and witty wife, Grace Burke, became a fixture of Hollywood society in the thirties and forties - they counted among their friends Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, Anita Loos, Aldous and Maria Huxley, Walt Disney, Helen Hayes, and William Randolph Hearst. Albert Einstein, a frequent visitor to Southern California, called Hubble's work "beautiful" and modified his equations on relativity to account for the discovery that the cosmos is expanding.

Industry Reviews
"Hubble's own story has not been adequately told until now....A riveting portrait of a great scientist and a haunted man, and the best look we are likely to have of the real Hubble."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Dennis Overbye

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