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Reasons in favor of a Hubble-Lemaître-Slipher's (HLS) Law

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31 December 2018

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Abstract
Based on historical facts, revisited from a present-day perspective, and on the documented opinions of the scientists involved in the discovery themselves, strong arguments are given in favor of a proposal to include prominent astronomer Vesto Slipher to the suggested addition of Georges Lemaître's name to Hubble's law on the expansion of the Universe, and thus eventually call it Hubble-Lemaître-Slipher's (HLS) law.
Keywords: 
universe expansion; cosmological distances; cosmological velocities; the concept of physical law
Subject: 
Physical Sciences  -   Astronomy and Astrophysics
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