Edwin Hubble facts and trivia

• Edwin Hubble was born on November 20, 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri, United States.
• Parents: John Powell Hubble and Virginia Lee James.
• Edwin Hubble taught Spanish, physics and mathematics at the New Albany high school in Indiana before taking up a staff position in California.
• Edwin Hubble served in the U.S. Army in World War I,
• His major contributions are the Discovery of galaxies beyond the Milky Way; Hubble's Law and expansion of the Universe; Discovery of asteroid 1373 Cincinnati; Hubble's galaxy classification and the tuning fork diagram.
• Edwin Hubble was awarded the Medal of Merit in 1946, for services rendered during World War II.
• Hubble died on September 28, 1953.
• The Space Telescope (HST) is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble.
• On March 6, 2008, the US Postal Service issued a postal stamp with his picture on it.