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The first astronomer to discover that a galaxies red-shift was larger the further away it was was Edwin Hubble in the 1920s.

The first scientist to describe red-shift in stars was actually Hippolyte Fizeau in 1848, though he was a physicist and not an astronomer.

That light should be effected in this way was suspected by Christian Doppler (after whom "The Doppler Effect" is named) as early as 1842.

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