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EDWIN HUBBLE [1889-1953] " When life is
full of trouble, Dr Edwin Powell Hubble, an aesthetic American astronomer is universally acknowledged as having been one of the foremost astronomers of the modern era. Astronomers have discovered pulsars, quasars, black holes and planets that orbit the distant suns. But all these prove to be a shade paler in comparison to the discoveries that Edwin Hubble made in the few remarkable years during the 1920s. Most of his colleagues believed that the Milky Way is a swirling collection of stars, a few hundred thousand light years away, that made up the entire cosmos. But his deep search into space from the chilly summit of Mount Wilson, in southern California, helped him determine that the Milky Way is just one of millions of galaxies that dot an incomparably larger setting. From his central role, in the so grand a problem, Hubble has become a legend. He possessed the most remarkable ability to cut the core of unsolved problems concerning the field of astronomy. From 1824 to 1936, he had set down the significant foundations upon which observational cosmology rests today. He is best remembered as the founder of observational cosmology and explorer of the distant cosmos.
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