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
Lemaître, Alpher, and Gamow first worked out the ideas that are today called the Big Bang theory.
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
This peasant, or rather mechanic, is a coppersmith named Husson Lemaître.
From Joan of Arc by Gower, Ronald Sutherland
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