ABSTRACT
The highest and most valued of the many awards Edwin Hubble received was the Barnard Medal, granted to him in June 1935 at Columbia University by the National Academy of Sciences. While preparing the Silliman Lectures at Lookout Hill, Hubble had intentionally snubbed Adams by writing directly to Merriam, asking for another extended paid leave so that he could deliver the Rhodes Lectures. Although Hubble liked the theater and the company of actors, he was no great fan of the movies and went only on occasion. The 200-inch was in need of an astronomical director, and Hubble would almost certainly be the first choice if Caltech could come up with the money. In the minds of many astronomers, Lemaître’s cosmology and Hubble’s redshifts had already replaced a vast, static universe with a vast, expanding one, shedding new light on Einstein’s relativistic speculation.
