Lemaître
[ luh-me-truh ]
/ ləˈmɛ trə /
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noun
Fran·cois É·lie Jules [frahn-swaey-leezhyl], /frɑ̃ˈswa eɪˈli ʒül/, 1835–1915, French critic and dramatist.
Ab·bé Georges É·douard [French a-beyzhawrzh ey-dwar], /French aˈbeɪ ʒɔrʒ eɪˈdwar/, 1894–1966, Belgian astrophysicist and priest: formulated big-bang theory.
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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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