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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Extrapolating backward in time, Lemaître proposed the idea of a primeval atom: a singularity from which the universe emerged in a uniquely hot, dense state.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
In 1927, when most believed that the Universe was static, Lemaître proposed that it was expanding, to account for observations that showed galaxies seem to be moving away from Earth.
From Nature • Oct. 29, 2018
And just before his death in 1966, Lemaître learned that his “vanished brilliance” had been discovered and confirmed.
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
His literary quality, as M. Jules Lemaître observes, owes little or nothing to the spirit or literature of the North.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
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