Milton Humason1929
The redshift in light coming from distant galaxies is proportional to their distance, the law is first formulated by Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason after nearly a decade of observations
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The redshift in light coming from distant galaxies is proportional to their distance, the law is first formulated by Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason after nearly a decade of observations
Humason provides redshift measurements used by Hubble to support the velocity distance relation
Sandage begins revising extragalactic distances and expansion measurements after Hubbles work
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