Georges Lemaître
Belgian scientist and priest (1894-1966) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monsignor Georges Lemaître (Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer , mathematician and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.
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The Reverend Monsignor Georges Lemaître | |
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Born | (1894-07-17)17 July 1894 |
Died | 20 June 1966(1966-06-20) (aged 71) Leuven, Belgium |
Nationality | Belgian |
Alma mater | Catholic University of Leuven St Edmund's House, Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Theory of the expansion of the universe Big Bang theory Lemaître coordinates |
Awards | Francqui Prize (1934) Eddington Medal (1953) |
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Fields | Cosmology Astrophysics Mathematics |
Institutions | Catholic University of Leuven |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin (Leuven) Arthur Eddington (Cambridge) Harlow Shapley (MIT) |
Doctoral students | Louis Philippe Bouckaert, Rene van der Borght |
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He was the first person to say the Universe is growing. Some people think it was Edwin Hubble, but that is not correct.[1][2] Lemaître was also the first to make the Hubble's law and the Hubble constant.[3][4][5][6] Lemaître also started what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe. He called it his 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'.[7][8]