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
Belgian priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître published a paper on the expansion of the Universe in 1927.
From Nature ● Oct. 29, 2018
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
Go on foot behind that wood, and get quietly under cover with Lemaître.
From In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry by Marcel Dupont
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