Georges Lemaître
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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| Born | 17 July 1894 |
| Died | 20 June 1966 (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]
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- Sidney van den Bergh arxiv.org 6 Jun 2011 1106.1195v1 [physics.hist-ph]
- David L. Block arxiv.org 20 Jun 2011 & 8 Jul 2011 1106.3928v2 [physics.hist-ph]
- Eugenie Samuel Reich Published online 27 June 2011| Nature| doi:10.1038/news.2011.385
- A science Odyssey: people and discoveries: Big bang theory is introduced
- Lemaître - Big Bang
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