Editing Edwin Hubble (section)

===Undergraduate studies===
Hubble's studies at the [[University of Chicago]] were concentrated on [[mathematics]], astronomy and [[philosophy]], which resulted in a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree by 1910. For a year he was also a student laboratory assistant for the physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan|Robert Millikan]], a future [[Nobel Prize]] winner.<ref name=":0" /> Hubble also became a member of [[Kappa Sigma]] fraternity. A [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]], he spent three years at [[The Queen's College, Oxford]] studying [[jurisprudence]] instead of science (as a promise to his dying father),<ref name="Times">{{cite web |author=Lemonick |first=Michael D. |date=March 29, 1999 |title=Astronomer Edwin Hubble |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990615,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319180642/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990615,00.html |archive-date=March 19, 2007 |access-date=May 29, 2011 |work=The Times |location=UK}}</ref> and later added studies in literature and Spanish,<ref name="Times" /> eventually earning a master's degree.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rhodes Scholars: Complete List, 1903–2010|author=The Rhodes Trust|publisher=The Rhodes Trust|quote=Hubble, Edwin – The Queen's College, Illinois (1910)|access-date=May 29, 2011|url=http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/section/rhodes-scholars-complete-list-1903-2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716231851/http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/section/rhodes-scholars-complete-list-1903-2009|archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref>

In 1909, Hubble's father moved his family from [[Chicago]], Illinois to [[Shelbyville, Kentucky]], so that the family could live in a small town, ultimately settling in nearby [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]]. His father died in the winter of&nbsp;1913, while Edwin was still in England. In the following summer, Edwin returned home to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, along with his brother William. The family moved once more to Everett Avenue, in Louisville's Highlands neighborhood, to accommodate Edwin and William.<ref>{{cite web |author=Kielkopf |first=John F. |title=Edwin Hubble, Family, and Friends in Louisville 1909–1916 |url=http://www.astro.louisville.edu/education/hubble_in_louisville/index.html}}</ref>

Hubble was a dutiful son, who despite his intense interest in astronomy since boyhood, acquiesced to his father's request to study law, first at the University of Chicago and later at Oxford University. In this time, he also took some math and science courses. After the death of his father in 1913, Edwin returned to the Midwest from Oxford but did not have the motivation to practice law. Instead, he proceeded to teach Spanish, [[physics]] and [[mathematics]] at [[New Albany High School (Indiana)|New Albany High School]] in [[New Albany, Indiana|New Albany]], Indiana, where he also coached the boys' basketball team. After a year of high-school teaching, he entered graduate school with the help of his former professor from the University of Chicago to study astronomy at the university's [[Yerkes Observatory]], where he received his Ph.D. in 1921. His [[Thesis|dissertation]] was titled "Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hubble |first=Edwin Powell |url=https://archive.org/details/photographicinve00hubbrich |title=Photographic investigations of faint nebulae |date=1920 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago, Illinois |access-date=September 15, 2016 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> At Yerkes, he had access to its 40-inch refractor telescope built in 1897, as well as an innovative 26-inch (61&nbsp;cm) reflector telescope.<ref name=":0">{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-Hubble|title=Edwin Hubble {{!}} American astronomer|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=November 20, 2017|language=en}}</ref>