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Red-Shifts in the Spectra of Nebulae

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

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1934

Edwin Powell Hubble8 May 1934

London · Science / Astronomy

Hubble delivers and publishes the Halley Lecture on red-shifts in nebular spectra, reviewing observational evidence and the competing physical interpretations of galaxy redshifts.

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Edwin Powell Hubble

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