Georges Lemaître
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Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (French: [ʒɔʁʒə ləmɛtʁ] ( listen); 17 Julie 1894 – 20 Juin 1966) wis a Belgian priest, astronomer an professor o pheesics at the Catholic Varsity o Leuven.[1] He proponed the theory o the expansion o the universe, widely misattributit tae Edwin Hubble.[2][3] He wis the first tae derive whit is nou kent as Hubble's law an made the first estimation o whit is nou cried the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, twa years before Hubble's airticle.[4][5][6][7] Lemaître an aa proposed whit acame kent as the Big Bang theory o the origin o the Universe, which he cried his "hypothesis o the primeval atom" or the "Cosmic Egg".[8]
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Msgr Georges Lemaître | |
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Born | 17 Julie 1894(1894-07-17) Charleroi, Belgium |
Dee'd | 20 Juin 1966(1966-06-20) (aged 71) Leuven, Belgium |
Naitionality | Belgian |
Alma mater | Catholic Varsity o Leuven Varsity o Cambridge Massachusetts Institute o Technology (PhD) |
Kent for | Theory o the expansion o the universe Big Bang theory Lemaître coordinates |
Awairds | Francqui Prize (1934) Eddington Medal (1953) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cosmology Astrophysics |
Institutions | Catholic Varsity o Leuven |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin (Leuven); Harlow Shapley (MIT) |
Doctoral students | Louis Philippe Bouckaert, Rene van der Borght |
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