There, a promise made to his dying father, who never accepted Edwin's infatuation for astronomy, led him to study law rather than science, although he also took up Literature and Spanish. The Rhodes scholarĪ tall, powerfully built young man, Hubble loved basketball and boxing, and the combination of athletic prowess and academic ability earned him a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. He finally obtained a degree in Mathematics and Astronomy in 1910. He paid his expenses by tutoring, working in the summer and, in his junior year, by obtaining a scholarship in physics and working as a laboratory assistant. This high school scholarship was also awarded to another student by mistake, so the money had to be halved and Edwin had to supply the rest. At his high school graduation in 1906, the principal said: "Edwin Hubble, I have watched you for four years and I have never seen you study for ten minutes." He paused, leaving young Edwin on tenterhooks a moment longer, before continuing: "Here is a scholarship for the University of Chicago."
A promising studentĮdwin Hubble was born in Missouri in 1889, the son of an insurance executive, and moved to Chicago nine years later. When scientists decided to name the Space Telescope after the founder of modern cosmology the choice could not have been more appropriate. A man who eventually broke the promise made to his father and followed the path dictated by his passion.Īs a result of Hubble's work, our perception of mankind's place in the Universe has changed forever: humans have once again been set aside from the centre of the Universe. This sentence, written by Edwin Hubble recalling his youth, tells us a lot about the man. "I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered." Edwin Powell Hubble - The man who discovered the cosmos
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