Science
Milton Humason
Astronomer; galaxy radial-velocity observer
Who they are
Milton Humason supplied new radial-velocity measurements credited in Edwin Hubble’s 1929 paper on galaxy distances and velocities. Those observations were part of the evidence used to explore a relationship between how far away galaxies appeared and how quickly they receded. His profile restores an observational contribution to an often single-name account of the result.
He contributed measurements used in the galaxy velocity–distance milestone.
Selected contributions
- Provided radial-velocity measurements acknowledged in Hubble’s 1929 paper.Source ↗
Primary records
Academic paper · 1929
A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae
Hubble compares estimated distances with radial velocities and reports an approximate linear relation for a limited sample. The paper acknowledges antecedent data and numerical assistance; its distance scale was preliminary.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Supporting text and table headings inspected; individual measurements and fitted uncertainties not independently recomputed. Reused prior inspected evidence: Supporting text and table headings inspected; individual measurements and fitted uncertainties not independently recomputed.
In the timeline
Biography sources
- A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae ↗Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 15, 168–173; scan hosted by University of Sheffield