Lemaître

[ luh-me-truh ]

/ ləˈmɛ trə /

noun

Fran·cois É·lie Jules

[frahn-swa ey-lee zhyl], /frɑ̃ˈswa eɪˈli ʒül/, 1835–1915, French critic and dramatist.

Abbé Georges É·douard

[French zhawrzh ey-dwar], /French ʒɔrʒ eɪˈdwar/, 1894–1966, Belgian astrophysicist and priest: formulated big-bang theory.

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Lela, Leland, Leloir, Lely, LEM, Lemaître, Lemalu, leman, Le Mans, Lemass, LeMay

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While the ONDCP will continue its other studies, Lemaitre admits that something will be missing without this one.
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Harel was really almost as eccentric in his own way as Lemaitre was in his.
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He had no perception then of Bourget's fear of hell, or of Lemaitre's want of moral equilibrium.
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However, I am wrong to apply this term to Lemaitre, who was in the truest sense an author.
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Lemaitre was so in love with the part that he used often to play it off the stage.
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The stage and caricature have since dressed up this mot in various forms, but Lemaitre was its first publisher.
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Lemaître

/ (French ləmɛtr) /

noun

Abbé Georges (Édouard) (ʒɔrʒ). 1894–1966, Belgian astronomer and priest, who first proposed the big-bang theory of the universe (1927)

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