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
Belgian priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître published a paper on the expansion of the Universe in 1927.
From Nature ● Oct. 29, 2018
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 theatres are not particularly good, but I have seen Lemaître act in the most wonderful and astounding manner.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth
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