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Vesto Melvin Slipher ( / ˈslaɪfər /; November 11, 1875 – November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer who performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies. He was the first to discover that distant galaxies are redshifted, thus providing the first empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
- Citizens Cemetery, Flagstaff
- November 8, 1969 (aged 93), Flagstaff, Arizona, US
- November 11, 1875, Mulberry, Indiana, US
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Apr 9, 2024 · Vesto Slipher (born November 11, 1875, near Mulberry, Indiana, U.S.—died November 8, 1969, Flagstaff, Arizona) was an American astronomer whose systematic observations (1912–25) of the extraordinary radial velocities of spiral galaxies provided the first evidence supporting the expanding-universe theory. Born on an Indiana farm, Vesto ...
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Vesto Melvin Slipher. 1935. Date of Birth. : November 11, 1875. Date of Death. : November 8, 1969. “V.M.” Slipher was born in Indiana and educated at Indiana University. His entire career was spent at the Lowell Observatory, where he started immediately after receiving his A.B. in 1901 and which he directed from 1916 to 1954.
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Apr 29, 2020 · Vesto Melvin Slipher was born on a farm in Mulberry, Indiana, on November 11, 1875. Invariably known as “V.M. Slipher,” he had an unspectacular childhood in the American Midwest, with few...
Sep 1, 2021 · Part of our understanding of the expanding universe has benefited, in no small part, to an Indiana farmer’s son named Vesto Slipher. Slipher developed spectrographic methods that allowed researchers to see a Doppler effect in the distances of what were then called “spiral nebula,” what we today call galaxies.
May 29, 2018 · SLIPHER, VESTO MELVIN (b. Mulberry, Indiana, 11 November 1875; d. Flagstaff, Arizona, 8 November 1969) astronomy. Slipher, a son of David Clarke and Hannah App Slipher, perfected techniques in spectroscopy and achieved great advances in galactic astronomy.
VESTO MELVIN SLIPHER, a pioneer in the field of astro- nomical spectroscopy during his long career at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, probably made more fundamental discoveries than any other observational astronomer of the twentieth century.1 He is best known for his discovery in 1913 of the extraor-dinary radial velocities of the...
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