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Vesto M. Slipher

Vesto M. Slipher

American astronomer
Vesto Melvin Slipher 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... Wikipedia
Born: November 11, 1875, Mulberry, IN
Died: November 8, 1969 (age 93 years), Flagstaff, AZ
Siblings: Earl C. Slipher