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===Health issues and death=== Hubble had a heart attack in July 1949 while on vacation in [[Colorado]]. He was cared for by his wife and continued on a modified diet and work schedule. He died of [[Thrombus|cerebral thrombosis]] (a blood clot in his brain) on September 28, 1953, in [[San Marino, California|San Marino]], California. No funeral was held for him, and his wife never revealed his burial site.<ref>{{cite book |author=Bryson |first=Bill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQ1iRQd52kgC&q=A+short+history+of+nearly+everything+Hubble+died&pg=PT238 |title=Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition |date=2010 |publisher=Random House Digital, Incorporated |isbn=9780307885166}}</ref><ref name="PK">{{cite book |author=Kupperberg |first=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/hubblebigbang0000kupp |title=Hubble and the Big Bang |date=2005 |publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group |isbn=9781404203075 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/hubblebigbang0000kupp/page/45 45]β6 |quote=World of Physics Hubble. |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Heilbron |first=J. L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XPrqOr7P0QwC&q=Hubble+physics+astronomy+Noble&pg=PT181 |title=The Oxford guide to the history of physics and astronomy |date=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press US |isbn=9780195171983 |volume=10 |pages=156β157}}</ref> Hubble's papers comprising the bulk of his correspondence, photographs, notebooks, observing logbooks, and other materials, are held by the [[Huntington Library]] in San Marino, California. They were donated by his wife Grace Burke Hubble upon her death in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |title=Edwin Powell Hubble Papers: Finding Aid |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7b69n8rd |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=October 24, 2023}}</ref>
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