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.
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On the life and work of Georges Lemaître.
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
Lemaître also used data from others to derive the constant governing the expansion, known today has Hubble's constant.
From Scientific American • Jun. 27, 2011
The play was in five acts, and the leading character was sustained by Lemaître.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett
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