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205 “He was standing at the laboratory window, looking at a plate of Orion”: HUB, Box 7, Grace's memoir.
205 Hubble and Grace, now widowed, renewed their acquaintance: Osterbrock, Brashear, and Gwinn (1990), p. 14.
205 “Do you think you can stay up later than an astronomer?”: HUB, Box 7, “Hubble: A Biographical Memoir.”
206 with none of Hubble's family members in attendance: Over the succeeding years, Hubble withdrew even further from his family, as if wishing his midwestern roots would just wither away and die. His younger brother, Bill, a dairy farmer, took responsibility for his mother's care, allowing Edwin to pursue his dreams unimpeded. See Christianson (1995), pp. 98–99, 166.
206 liked to mingle with the elite of Hollywood society rather than astronomers: Dunaway (1989), p. 69.
207 “A stranger could drop raspberry soufflé on the rug without hearing a murmur”: Ibid.
207 “quite out of the common”: A comment made by Susan Ertz, a friend of Grace's from elementary school. HUB, Box 1, Folder 3.
207 “was Watson to his Sherlock Holmes”: HUB, Box 7, “Hubble: A Biographical Memoir.”
207 found even more variables: Hubble (1925a).
207 hundreds of pages now filed away in an archive: The Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
207 he sometimes cut corners in the darkroom: AIP, interview of Nicholas U. Mayall by Bert Shapiro, February 13, 1977; interview of Martin Schwarzschild by Spencer Weart on June 3, 1977.
208 “one lump of beauty mixed with lots of incredible boredom and discomfort”: AIP, interview of Jesse Greenstein by Paul Wright on July 31, 1974.
209 “You … may be interested to hear that variable stars are now being found”: LWA, Hubble to Slipher, July 14, 1924.
209 Slipher had already heard: LWA, Slipher to Hubble, August 8, 1924.
209 The news was rapidly spreading on the astronomical grapevine: HUB, Box 1, “Edwin Hubble and the Existence of External Galaxies” by Michael Hoskin.
209 “What do you think of Hubble's Cepheids”: HUA, van Maanen to Shapley, March 14, 1924.
209 “I feel it is still premature to base conclusions on these variables”: HUA, Hubble to Shapley, August 25, 1924.
210 “exciting” … “What tremendous luck you are having”: HUA, Shapley to Hubble, September 5, 1924.
210 most boisterous promoter: Shapley soon published a popular article titled “Beyond the Bounds of the Milky Way.” HP, Shapley to Hale, April 2, 1925.
210 “I am wasting a good deal of time”: LWA, Hubble to Slipher, December 20, 1924.
211 “Finds Spiral Nebulae Are Stellar Systems”: New York Times, November 23, 1924, p. 6.
211 “the rapid progress of knowledge, and the changing state of speculative theories”: Doig (1924), p. 99.
211 “undoubtedly among the most notable scientific advances of the year”: Berendzen, Hart, and Seeley (1984), p. 134.
211 “Heartiest congratulations on your Cepheids in spiral nebulae!”: HUB, Russell to Hubble, December 12, 1924.
212 “considerable interest” in the outcome: “Welfare of World Depends on Science, Coolidge Declares” (1925), p. 9.
212 “The real reason for my reluctance in hurrying to press”: Hubble to Russell, February 19, 1925, in Berendzen and Hoskin (1971), p. 11.
212 “I believe the measured rotations must be abandoned”: Ibid.
212 “an ass!!”: HUB, Stebbins to Hubble, February 16, 1925.
212 “We walked back to the group in the lobby”: Ibid.
213 “I have always believed that the spirals are island universes”: LOA, Curtis to Aitken, January 2, 1925.
213 “Dr. Hubble … has found that the outer parts of the two most conspicuous nebulae”: HUB, Box 9.
213 The Cepheids were fast becoming the gold standard for measuring distances: Russell (1925), p. 103.
213 “The great distances recently derived have made rapid rotation impossible”: Luyten (1926), p. 388.
214 “van Maanen's measurements have to go”: Berendzen, Hart, and Seeley (1984), p. 123.
214 Parasitologist Lemuel Cleveland of the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins was also honored: “Honor for Dr. Edwin P. Hubble” (1925), pp. 100–101.
214 “To scientists, … the infinite and the