Edwin Hubble
Tall, handsome, and charismatic, Edwin Hubble moved as easily around circles of celebrity as through the halls of science. He was courted by the cream of Hollywood society -- Frank Capra, Anita Loos, Charlie Chaplin -- and was friendly with the California emigre community, which included Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Sergey Eisenstein. This volume is at once a revealing portrait of scientific genius, an incisive, engaging history of ideas, and a shimmering evocation of what we see when gazing at the stars.

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