The Day We Found the Universe - Marcia Bartusiak [160]
169 adding dubious credentials to his curriculum vitae: This may have been a family trait. Hubble's father was described by his family as working at certain positions, which it was later discovered he never held. See Christianson (1995), p. 12.
170 And the longer time went on, said astronomer Nicholas Mayall, who once worked with Hubble, the higher the pedestal got: AIP, interview of Nicholas U. Mayall by Bert Shapiro, February 13, 1977.
170 he ruled his domestic realm with a firm puritanical hand, a strictness that was balanced by the more forgiving and accessible mother: HUB, Box 8, Helen Hubble memoir.
170 permitted to stay up past his bedtime: Ibid.
170 In high school: Facts concerning Hubble's high school accomplishments come from HUB, Box 2.
170 “He always seemed to be looking for an audience to which he could expound some theory or other”: Christianson (1995), p. 31.
171 “outlandish” career choice: Ibid., p. 40.
171 Hubble compromised by taking science classes … as well as … classics: HUB, Box 25, undergraduate course book.
172 “Motor cars, at last, were successfully competing with horses”: HUB, Box 1, Folder 23, pp. 1–2.
172 “whiz” at calculus, who “often utterly dumfounded” the professor: HUB, Box 19, John Schommer to Grace Hubble, May 15, 1958.
172 best physics student: HUB, Box 25, “The Daily Maroon,” January 26, 1910.
172 Chicago promoters were eager for him to turn professional: HUB, Box 7, “University of Chicago, 1906–1910, 1914–1917,” p. 3.
172 Good in academics but not “mere bookworms” … “moral force of character”: Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911).
173 “man of magnificent physique, admirable scholarship, and worthy and lovable character”: HUB, Box 15, Millikan to Edmund James, January 8, 1910.
173 three years on an annual stipend of fifteen hundred dollars: HUB, Box 25, “The Daily Maroon,” January 26, 1910.
173 “considerable ability. Manly”: Osterbrock, Brashear, and Gwinn (1990), p. 4.
173 “had transformed [Hubble], seemingly, into a phony Englishman, as phony as his accent”: Christianson (1995), p. 64.
173 “I sometimes feel that there is within me, to do what the average man would not do”: Ibid., p. 67.
173 “Why not be first in Rome?”: HUB, Box 8, Grace's memoirs.
174 translating what may have been legal correspondence: Christianson (1995), p. 86.
174 All this time he was actually teaching at the high school in New Albany, Indiana … dedicated the school's 1914 yearbook to him: HUB, Box 22A.
174 “So I chucked the law”: HUB, Box 7, “Hubble: A Biographical Memoir.” Hubble was eventually awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of California in 1949.
175 “splendid specimen,” who showed “exceptional ability”: Osterbrock, Brashear, and Gwinn (1990), p. 5.
176 “Send us three hundred words expressing your ideas on the habitability of Mars”: Frost (1933), p. 217.
176 “Those who have visited a large observatory on such a night”: Ibid., p. 205.
176 “So you say that each of those points of light is a sun”: Ibid., p. 207.
177 Frost himself was slowly losing his eyesight due to cataracts: Christianson (1995), p. 95.
178 “Suppose them to be extra-sidereal [outside the Milky Way] and perhaps we see clusters of galaxies”: Hubble (1920), p. 75.
178 “But it shows clearly the hand of a great scientist groping toward the solution of great problems”: Osterbrock, Brashear, and Gwinn (1990), p. 7.
178 “questions await their answers for instruments more powerful than those we now possess”: Hubble (1920), p. 69.
178 “I have offered Hubbell [sic] a position with us at $1200. per year”: HP, Hale to Adams, November 1, 1916.
179 he didn't have the money to offer his graduating student a well-paid position: HP, Henry Gale to Adams, April 4, 1917.
179 Within days Hubble asked Frost for a letter of recommendation … a military reservation on Lake Michigan, north of Chicago: Osterbrock, Brashear, and Gwinn (1990), pp. 8–9.
179 “scimpy”: Christianson (1995), p. 101.
179 Hubble had already sent a letter: MWDF, Hubble to Hale, April