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Mount Wilson Hubble Discussion

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1931

Albert EinsteinJanuary 1931

Mount Wilson Observatory · Science / Astronomy

Visits Mount Wilson and discusses observational cosmology, confronting evidence that distant galaxies exhibit the redshift-distance relation associated with cosmic expansion.

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Albert Einstein

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