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The article is published on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the death of an excellent American observatory astronomer E. P. Hubble. It presents his biographical data and the results of his study of galaxies. His collaboration with Milton Humason at the Mount Palomar Observatory led Hubble to the formulation of the law of linear relationship between recessional velocity of a galaxy and its distance.
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