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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 24, 1940.
RIDDLE OF LIFE ON MARS MAY BE HIS BIG TRIUMPH
of
The man who may be the first to, ary Force and rose to the rank establish whether there is life on major, was appointed to the obser- Mars and other planets is to receive vatory on his demobilisation. the highest honour British astrono- mers can bestow.
Attempts to solve the much-dis- cussed problem will be made when telescope at the gigantic 200-inch Mount Wilson Observatory, California, is ready for use shortly.
The man who will try to solve the riddle of Mars is Dr. Edwin E. Hub- ble, the director of the observatory. He has already seen more of the outer distances of stellar space than any other individual.
He was the first to see beyond the the stellar system through great telescope. He has surveyed a "piece" of the universe com. prising 100 million nebulae-and a nebula is a stellar system like of the Milky our own system Way, WORLD'S GREATEST TELESCOPE But the use of the 100in. telescope them, raised new questions, among what is beyond the nebulae?
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a Rhodes This work
Dr. Hubble, who was accomplished through the 100 inch diameter tele- scholar at Oxford, has been previous- Britain. In 1934 scope, which was being polished to ly honoured in
the its final perfection during
last Oxford University conferred on him war, and which was also set up at the honorary degree of doctor
0,000ft. Mount Wilson,
science, and in 1938 he delivered, at
level.
Oxford, the Rhodes Memorial Lec- a tures, under the title, "The Observa- private in the American Expedition- tional Approach to Cosmology."
For his remarkable observations in the heavens, he has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astrono- mical Society. Officially, the honour has been bestowed for his "outstand- ing work on the distances, veloci- ties, distribution and nature of the extra-galactic nebulae."
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