When was Edwin Hubble born?
November 20, 1889
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Edwin Hubble was born on November 20, 1889, in Marshfield, Missouri. He was an American astronomer who is considered the father of observational cosmology. He discovered that the universe is expanding and made the first measurement of the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding.
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