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Is it time to rename the Hubble constant?

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By Joseph Marcus, Marcia Bartusiak Verified, Douglas MacDougal
| Astronomy Magazine Verified
Most people associate the discovery that faraway galaxies are receding from us — and thus, that the universe is expanding — with Edwin Hubble, thanks to his landmark 1929 paper. It was one of the most fundamental discoveries in the history of science. But Hubble did not discover the expansion. In the 1910s, a Lowell Observatory astronomer named Vesto Slipher found that spiral nebulae, as galaxies were called, are “fleeing” from us at what were then unheard-of speeds.
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‘Chain Reactions’ Review: Fuel of the Nuclear Age

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By Marcia Bartusiak Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
During the early 1950s America went bonkers over the budding atomic age. The growth of Las Vegas, for example, was partially due to a new bomb-testing site situated 65 miles northwest of the gambling town. Relaxing by the pool at the Atomic View Motel, drinks in hand, tourists eagerly waited to see the latest explosion. Businesses handed out calendars to confirm the dates and times.
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‘Einstein’s Tutor’ Review: Emmy Noether in Space and Time

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By Marcia Bartusiak Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
The daughter of a university math professor, Noether was born in Germany in 1882. She was a bright and lively woman but due to her intellectual prowess was not considered a desirable marriage prospect. Trained to teach English and French, she chose to pursue graduate work in mathematics at her father’s university. Her father fell ill after she received her doctorate in 1907, and she began teaching his courses as an unpaid substitute.
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