Favorite Scientist #2
Born in 1898, in Missouri, (United States of America) Edwin Hubble was, as he would tell you, an extraordinary man. He was an athelete of dangerous prowess. knocking out champion boxers, winning first place in pole vault, shot put, discus , hammer throw, and standing high jump competitions, (all in one afternoon). With athleticism came bravery, and he was known to rescue drowning swimmers and lead men to safety in World War I. And his looks?... "Handsome to a fault" "an Adonis" fawned his contemporaries. But Hubble found true greatness in Science. Up until the time Hubble entered an observatory and peered into telescope there was only one known galaxy, the Milky way. Hubble was to find there was much more than one galaxy, as he put forth in his paper "Cepheids in Spiral Nebulae" making him the first to conjugate galaxy into plural, in a serious manner. Hubble's second great discovery, was that the universe was expanding and these galaxies were drifting apart. Some 30 years after he expanded our universe to great depths, he died. Upon his death his wife, sans funeral, stole away with his body. It remains a mystery where it is today, and the closest he has to a memorial or grave is the Telescope which floats in space, bearing his name.