Humason

Milton Humason, who, with only an eighth-grade education, became a world-renowned expert on galaxy motions .... and others.

The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak: Book summary 2010

Hubble and Humason proved instead that the universe was expanding, giving rise to the Big Bang theory that now dominates astronomy.

Gabriel Rotello: Saving Mount Wilson 2009

I could hold up photographs of Hubble, Humason and Einstein in a particular spot, then gaze at that spot and nothing had changed at all.

Gabriel Rotello: Saving Mount Wilson 2009

So it's heartening to see that in the case of Mt. Wilson, people were willing to put their lives on the line to save this bucolic piece of living history, where folks like Hubble and Humason brought the fires of the universe down to earth.

Gabriel Rotello: Saving Mount Wilson 2009

That discovery vastly increased the size of the known universe, but Hubble and Humason didn't stop there.

Gabriel Rotello: Saving Mount Wilson 2009

Here is a sobering sentence from an article about Humason: “During the period from 1930 until his retirement in 1957, he measured the velocities of 620 galaxies.”

Thanksgiving Sean 2007

Humason, Mayall, and Sandage have given a value for this deceleration which indicates that the universe must ultimately stop expanding and begin to collapse.

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

This sort of analysis has been carried out jointly by Humason, Mayall, and Sandage

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

Mr. John D. Wright, one of her teachers at the Wright-Humason School, says in a letter to me:

The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

In the diary that she kept at the Wright-Humason School in New York, she wrote on October 18, 1894, "I find that I have four things to learn in my school life here, and indeed, in life – to think clearly without hurry or confusion, to love everybody sincerely, to act in everything with the highest motives, and to trust in dear God unhesitatingly."

The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905