Georges Lemaitre was a Belgian priest, astronomer and physicist who formulated the modern big bang theory, explaining the recession of the galaxies within Einstein's general relativity.
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Credited as founder of physical cosmology and the Big Bang theory specifically, not of cosmological speculation generally, which is far older.
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Born: July 17, 1894, Charleroi, Belgium
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Died: June 20, 1966, Leuven (aged 71)
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Georges Lemaître was a Belgian astronomer and cosmologist who formulated the modern big-bang theory, which holds that the universe began in a cataclysmic explosion of a small, primeval “super-atom.”
- Works In: Astronomy
- Proposed: Big Bang Theory
- Works In: Astrophysics
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Member Of: University of Cambridge, Lead
allowing Lemaître to travel to England, where he worked with the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington at the University of Cambridge in 1923-1924, and to the United States, where he worked with Harlow Shapley at the
Member Of: Harvard College Observatory, Lead
University of Cambridge in 1923-1924, and to the United States, where he worked with Harlow Shapley at the Harvard College Observatory and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1924-1925.
Member Of: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lead
and to the United States, where he worked with Harlow Shapley at the Harvard College Observatory and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1924-1925.
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Proposed: Big Bang Theory
Hoyle coined the term big bang himself, in a 1949 BBC radio broadcast, intending it dismissively for the model this edge credits to Lemaitre. He continued developing steady-state and quasi-steady-state alternatives for the rest of his career and never accepted the big bang model, even after the 1965 discovery of the cosmic microwave background that the model had predicted and his own theory could not satisfactorily explain. Carried here as the historical dispute it was: Hoyle stayed the model's rival most durable and most publicly identified critic, not a claim that his steady-state alternative was correct.
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