Did Edwin Hubble plagiarize?
  Recently Block published an astro-ph{{http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3928
(2011).}} insinuating that Lemaitre discovery paper of the Expanding Universe
was censored prior to its translation into English and publication in the
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Consequently, Lemaitre's
credit for the discovery of the velocity-distance correlation was not
recognized. We examine here the chain of events leading to the discovery of the
'Hubble law'. Our summary: (a) Lemaitre found a theoretical linear correlation
between velocity and distance. (b) Lemaitre assumed the existence of a linear
relation between velocity and distance and calculated the coefficient. (c)
Hubble took the data plotted it and demonstrated that a linear relation
represents the observed data. (d) Hubble never believed in Lemaitre's solution,
namely in an expanding universe. Consequently, Hubble never cited Lemaitre. We
conclude that the charge that Lemaitre's paper was censored or ignored let
alone plagiarized by Hubble, is not founded, and explain why Lemaitre's earlier
theoretical discovery and derived 'Hubble constant' was not cited or
recognized, by Hubble as well as by many other leading researchers.
