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Slipher
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Slipher	has publication 1918, PASP 30, 346.. Discussion about the spectra of 'spiral nebula' NGC 4449 and NGC 4214, but no spectra actually published (claims 200 km/s and 300 km/s recession velocities respectively)
	has refererence Hall, J.S. : 1989, PASP 101, 887. : He discovered the high velocities and rotation of nebulous objects later identified as galaxies. He measured the velocities of 41 of these objects. In 1929 Hubble derived his important velocity-distance relationship using, as he later wrote Slipher, "your velocities and my distances"
	has degree Indiana Univ.
	has name Vesto Melvin Slipher
	has career 1901-1916 : Lowell Observatory 1913 : blue-shift observed in Andromeda galaxy (Bull. Lowell Obs., 2, 56) 1914 : first galaxy redshifts observed (Bull. Lowell Obs., 2, 6) 1916-1954 : Director Lowell Observatory 1917 : most galaxies have redshifts (The Observatory, 40, 304) 1925 : red-shifts of galaxies suggest a distance/velocity relationship 1929 : Hubble combines Slipher's redshift measurements with Hubble's distance estimates and postulates Hubble's Law
	has death date 8 November 1969
	has birth date 11 November 1875
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