Editing Edwin Hubble (section)

==Controversies==
===Accusations concerning Lemaître's priority===
In 2011, the journal [[Nature (journal)|''Nature'']] reported claims that Hubble might have played a role in the [[redaction]] of key parts of the 1931 English translation of [[Georges Lemaître|Lemaître's]] 1927 paper, which formulated what was later called Hubble's law and also gave observational evidence. Historians quoted in the article were skeptical that the redactions were part of a campaign to ensure Hubble retained priority. However, the observational astronomer [[Sidney van den Bergh]] published a paper<ref name="Bergh">{{cite journal |last1=Bergh |first1=Sidney van den |title=The Curious Case of Lemaitre's Equation No. 24 |journal=Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |arxiv=1106.1195 |date=June 6, 2011|volume=105 |issue=4 |page=151 |bibcode=2011JRASC.105..151V }}</ref> suggesting that while the omissions may have been made by a translator, they may still have been deliberate.

In November 2011, the astronomer [[Mario Livio]] reported in ''Nature'' that a letter he found in the Lemaître archive demonstrated that the redaction had been made by Lemaître himself, who apparently saw no point in publishing scientific content which had already been reported in 1929 by Hubble.<ref name="nature.com"/> However, the fact remains that Lemaître published the law<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Georges |first1=Lemaître |title=Un Univers homogène de masse constante et de rayon croissant rendant compte de la vitesse radiale des nébuleuses extra-galactiques |journal=Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles |date=1927 |volume=47 |issue=A47 |pages=49–59 |bibcode=1927ASSB...47...49L }}</ref> in French, two years prior to Hubble.

===Campaign to obtain a Nobel Prize===
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During Hubble's life the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] did not cover astronomy. Hubble spent much of the later part of his career attempting to have astronomy considered part of physics, instead of being a separate science. He did this largely so that astronomers—including himself—could be recognized by the [[Nobel Committee]] for their contributions to [[astrophysics]]. This campaign was unsuccessful in Hubble's lifetime, but shortly after his death, the Nobel Prize Committee decided that astronomical work would be eligible for the physics prize.<ref name="Gale E. Christianson 1996">{{cite book |author=Christianson |first=Gale E. |title=Edwin Hubble: mariner of the nebulae |date=1996 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=362 |quote=Grace heard that Enrico Fermi and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, both members of the Nobel Committee, had joined their colleagues in unanimously voting Hubble the prize in physics, a rumor later confirmed by the astronomers Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge after speaking with "Chandra.}}</ref> However, the Nobel prize is not awarded posthumously.