Edwin Hubble, the Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe

by Igor D. Novikov, Alexandr S. Shaeov, Alexander S. Sharov

Book Overview

This book is the first complete account of the scientific life and work of Edwin Hubble, whose discoveries firmly established the United States as the leading nation in observational astronomy. One of the outstanding astronomers of the twentieth century, Hubble discovered the expansion of the Universe. He opened the world of galaxies for science when he showed that spiral nebulae beyond the Milky Way are galaxies extending to the limits of the Universe,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521017610
• ISBN13: 9780521017619
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"