 Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He was born to an insurance
executive in Marshfield, Missouri and moved to Wheaton, Illinois in 1898. In his younger days, he was noted more for his athletic
prowess rather than his intellectual abilities, although he did earn good grades in every subject, except for spelling. He
won seven first places and a third place in a single high school track meet in 1906. That year he also set a state record
for high jump in Illinois.
His studies at the University of Chicago concentrated on mathematics and astronomy[citation needed] which led to a BS
degree in 1910. Hubble also became a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and in 1948 was named Kappa Sigma "Man of the
Year". He spent the next three years as one of Oxford's first Rhodes Scholars, where he originally studied jurisprudence,
before switching his major to Spanish and receiving the MA degree, after which he returned to the United States. Some of his
British mannerisms and dress stayed with him all his life, occasionally irritating his more American colleagues.
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