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Silliman Lectures at Yale

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

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1935

Edwin Powell Hubble1935

Yale University · Science / Astronomy

Edwin Hubble delivers the Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale, presenting a systematic account of extragalactic astronomy that becomes the foundation of his 1936 book The Realm of the Nebulae.

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Edwin Powell Hubble

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