Encyclopaedia Britannica biography of Georges Lemaitre, who proposed the primeval-atom hypothesis behind the big bang theory in 1927.
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PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Georges-Lemaitre
Source Typeencyclopedia
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