Editing Edwin Hubble (section)

==Personal life==
Hubble married Grace Lillian (Burke) Leib (1889–1980), daughter of John Patrick and Luella (Kepford) Burke, on February 26, 1924.

Hubble was raised as a Protestant Christian, but some of his later statements suggest uncertainty.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6pMqCjVynG0C | isbn=9781609613204 | title=Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America | date=October 11, 2011 | publisher=Harmony/Rodale }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Christianson |first=Gale E. |title=Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae |date=1996 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226105215 |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=183 |quote=One morning, while driving north with Grace after the failed eclipse expedition of 1923, he broached Whitehead's idea of a God who might have chosen from a great many possibilities to make a different universe, but He made this one. By contemplating the universe, one might approximate some idea of its Creator. As time passed, however, he seemed even less certain: "We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is – at least in its physical aspects." His life was dedicated to science and the objective world of phenomena. The world of pure values is one which science cannot enter, and science is unconcerned with the transcendent, however, compelling a private revelation or individual moment of ecstasy. He pulled no punches when a deeply depressed friend asked him about his belief: "The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it, and forget about it."}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Bezzi |first=Tom |url=https://archive.org/details/hubbletime00tomb/page/93 |title=Hubble Time |date=2000 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=9780595142477 |page=[https://archive.org/details/hubbletime00tomb/page/93 93] |quote=John terribly depressed, and asked Edwin about his belief. Edwin said, "The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it, and forget about it." It was not his nature to speculate. Theories, in his opinion, were an appropriate cocktail conversation. He was essentially an observer, and as he said in The Realm of the Nebulae: "Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation." Edwin never exhausted those empirical resources. "I am an observer, not a theoretical man," he attested, and a lightly spoken word in a lecture or in a letter showed that observation was his choice.}}</ref>

===Health issues and death===
Hubble had a heart attack in July 1949 while on vacation in [[Colorado]]. He was cared for by his wife and continued on a modified diet and work schedule. He died of [[Thrombus|cerebral thrombosis]] (a blood clot in his brain) on September 28, 1953, in [[San Marino, California|San Marino]], California. No funeral was held for him, and his wife never revealed his burial site.<ref>{{cite book |author=Bryson |first=Bill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQ1iRQd52kgC&q=A+short+history+of+nearly+everything+Hubble+died&pg=PT238 |title=Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition |date=2010 |publisher=Random House Digital, Incorporated |isbn=9780307885166}}</ref><ref name="PK">{{cite book |author=Kupperberg |first=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/hubblebigbang0000kupp |title=Hubble and the Big Bang |date=2005 |publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group |isbn=9781404203075 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/hubblebigbang0000kupp/page/45 45]–6 |quote=World of Physics Hubble. |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Heilbron |first=J. L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XPrqOr7P0QwC&q=Hubble+physics+astronomy+Noble&pg=PT181 |title=The Oxford guide to the history of physics and astronomy |date=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press US |isbn=9780195171983 |volume=10 |pages=156–157}}</ref>

Hubble's papers comprising the bulk of his correspondence, photographs, notebooks, observing logbooks, and other materials, are held by the [[Huntington Library]] in San Marino, California. They were donated by his wife Grace Burke Hubble upon her death in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |title=Edwin Powell Hubble Papers: Finding Aid |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7b69n8rd |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=October 24, 2023}}</ref>