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Edwin Hubble Never Got a Nobel Prize

Facts are that astronomer Edwin Hubble of telescope fame never won a Nobel Prize. It’s true. During Hubble’s life, astronomy was not considered an area of physics. And astronomy was not a category. Though he tried all his life to get the rules changed, they didn’t change until after his death. Hubble not only introduced the world to the Facts that: the Milky Way was not the only galaxy, there were various stars including spiral nebulae (e.g. Andromeda Nebulae), many classifications of galaxies existed, there was a Doppler Shift (Red Shift), and the existence of asteroid 1373 of Cincinnati (August 30, 1935). Hubble also authored many important and was finally honored with his picture on a US Postal stamp in 2008. Ironically, the facts are that he died the same year the Nobel Prize committee accepted astronomy as a category of physics. All agreed that had he lived, he would have won the Nobel Prize that very year.