Robert McNees on Nostr: Astronomer Milton Humason was born #OTD in 1891. He dropped out of the *eighth grade* ...
Astronomer Milton Humason was born #OTD in 1891.
He dropped out of the *eighth grade* and had little formal education, but a knack for difficult observations helped him collect much of the data used to establish what we now call Hubble’s Law.
Image: Emilio Segrè Archives
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