Humason, Milton La Salle (1891-1972) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography

Branch of Science

Astronomers

Nationality

American

Humason, Milton La Salle (1891-1972)

American astronomer who began his astronomical career as janitor at the Mount Wilson Observatory. He began making observations with Hubble measuring the recessional velocities of faint galaxies (Humason 1929). Using observations from Palomar, Humason et al. (1956) extended the Hubble law out to a recessional velocity of 60,000 km s^-1.

Hubble

Humason, M. L. "The Large radial Velocities of N. G.C. 7619." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 15, 1929. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/d_1996/hubble_nas.html.

Humason, M. L.; Mayall, N. U.; and Sandage, A. Astron. J. 61, 97, 1956.

Sandage, A. "Edwin Hubble 1889-1953." J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada 83, 1989. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/d_1996/sandage_hubble.html.