List of Famous people with last name Slipher

Vesto Slipher

First Name Vesto

Born on November 11, 1875

Died on November 8, 1969 (aged 93)

Born in United States of America, Indiana

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 of the universe. He was also the first to relate these redshifts to velocity.

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