Edwin Powell Hubble Tablet - Springfield, MO
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N 37° 10.371 W 093° 19.746
15S E 470784 N 4114098
This plaque honors one of the most famous astronomers of modern times whose discoveries changed the current perceptions of the universe. There is a lunar crater named in his honor and an asteroid.
Waymark Code: WMGY9Q
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/23/2013
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Probably the name Hubble is most readily recognized for the
Hubble Space Telescope, that has added so profoundly to our view of the universe. He was also honored by the naming of
Hubble Crater on the moon and by
2069 Hubble Asteroid.
Hist name is also attached to Hubble's Law which establishes the observation that the universe is expanding outward and calculates the rate of that expansion, known as Hubble's Constant.
EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE
1889 – 1953
WAS BORN IN MARSHFIELD MO. HUBBLE
WAS AN ASTRONOMER WHO PROFOUNDLY
CHANGED UNDERSTANDING OF THE
UNIVERSE BY DETERMINING THE
EXISTENCE OF OTHER GALAXIES SUCH
AS OUR OWN MILKY WAY. HE WAS ONE
OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY’S FIRST
RHODES SCHOLARS, THEN COMPLETED
HIS PH D AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO. IN 1917 HUBBLE WAS ON THE
STAFF OF CALIFORNIA’S MOUNT
WILSON OBSERVATORY. IN 1953 HE WAS THE
FIRST ASTRONOMER TO USE MOUNT
PALOMAR’S GIANT 200-INCH TELESCOPE.
HUBBLE HAS BEEN HONORED BY NASA’S
NAMING OF THE ORBITING HUBBLE
SPACE TELESCOPE AND IS CALLED
A PIONEER OF THE DISTANT STARS.
DONATED BY MARSHFIELD LIONS CLUB
2011
The memorial plaque is one of a series in the Lion's Club History Walk in Nathanael Greene Park in Springfield, Missouri. It is a concrete slab set flush with the ground. the park is open 8:00 a.m. to dusk and is free.