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Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (/ l ə ˈ m ɛ t r ə / lə-MET-rə; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləmɛːtʁ] ⓘ; 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.
6 days ago · Georges Lemaître was a Belgian astronomer and cosmologist who formulated the modern big-bang theory, which holds that the universe began in a cataclysmic explosion of a small, primeval “super-atom.”
Georges Lemaître, (1894-1966), Belgian cosmologist, Catholic priest, and father of the Big Bang theory. Photo courtesy of AIP Emilio Segré Visual Archives, Dorothy Davis Locanthi Collection.
Oct 12, 2018 · In 1927, a prescient astronomer named Georges Lemaître looked at data showing how galaxies move. He noticed something peculiar – all of them appeared to be speeding away from Earth.
Jun 20, 2019 · On June 20, 1966, Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics Georges Lemaître passed away. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble, and is best known for his proposal of what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe.
Jul 16, 2014 · On this day 120 years ago, Georges Lemaître, ‘father’ of the Big Bang was born in Belgium. First soldier, then priest and astrophysicist, Lemaitre reached the heights by proclaiming something that broke all the established rules: the universe was expanding and was born out of the explosion of a tiny point, which he called the “primeval ...
Jun 16, 2018 · No other scientist may have had a greater impact on modern cosmology than the Belgian physicist, astronomer and priest Georges Lemaître. In 1927 he predicted the expansion of the universe on the basis of the cosmological field equations; and four years later he proposed what he called the primeval-atom hypothesis, the first version of the ...
Mar 28, 2019 · Georges-Henri Lemaitre was the first scientist to figure out the basics of how our universe was created. His ideas led to the theory of the "Big Bang", which began the expansion of the universe and influenced the creation of the first stars and galaxies.
Jul 21, 2020 · From these new assessments, we can see that Georges Lemaître, the father of the Big Bang, was arguably the greatest cosmologist of his generation. Elsewhere in the article Mitton refers to Lemaître as the greatest cosmologist of the 20th century, which probably translates into the greatest cosmologist, period.
May 26, 2019 · Georges Lemaître was a priest of the diocese of Louvain, in Belgium. The proposer of what would become known as the Big Bang Theory was one of the more influential astrophysicists of his lifetime.
