Lemaître
Americannoun
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Francois Élie Jules 1835–1915, French critic and dramatist.
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Abbé Georges Édouard 1894–1966, Belgian astrophysicist and priest: formulated big-bang theory.
noun
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The theory began to take shape in the 1920s, when Georges Lemaître linked Edwin Hubble’s observations of receding galaxies with Alexander Friedmann’s earlier equations describing an expanding universe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Lemaître then went on to use Slipher’s data to support the hypothesis that the universe actually is expanding and to estimate the rate of expansion.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
You have to remember that the geneticist Gregor Mendel was a monk, while the reigning Big Bang theory of cosmology was devised by a Catholic priest named Georges Lemaître.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 29, 2015
The relationship between the velocity of recession of galaxies and their distance from Earth that we call Hubble's law was first formulated by Belgian cosmologist Georges Lemaître.
From Nature ● Mar. 22, 2012
At the end of it Jean Lemaître himself arrived by order of the Chief Inquisitor.
From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
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