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George Darwin Lecture

Great Britain · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1953

Edwin Powell Hubble8 May 1953

London · Science / Astronomy

Edwin Hubble delivers the George Darwin Lecture in London on the law of red-shifts, reviewing the observational development of the galaxy velocity-distance relation and its cosmological significance.

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Edwin Powell Hubble

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