Public
- Public
- Network
- Groups
- Popular
- People

A black and white photo of Milton Humason sitting on a rock, with pine trees behind him. He is wearing a dark suit and tie, with a white shirt and glasses. Humason is smiling at the camera and a mountain home is visible behind him.

Download link

A black and white photo of Milton Humason sitting on a rock, with pine trees behind him. He is wearing a dark suit and tie, with a white shirt and glasses. Humason is smiling at the camera and a mountain home is visible behind him.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/989/551/602/074/587/original/79fe83029b5b490b.jpeg

Notices where this attachment appears

Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 16:08:59 UTC Robert McNees

Astronomer Milton Humason was born #OTD in 1891.
He dropped out of the *eighth grade* and had little formal education, but a knack for difficult observations helped him collect much of the data used to establish what we now call Hubble’s Law.
Image: Emilio Segrè Archives

In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.social permalink