biography
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Lemaître, Georges (Edouard)
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pronunciation:
[luhmetr]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1966)
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| biography:
| Astrophysicist, born in Charleroi, S Belgium. A civil engineer, army officer, and ordained priest, he studied physics at Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became professor of the theory of relativity at Louvain (1927), where he did research on cosmic rays and the three-body problem, and proposed (1927) the ‘big bang’ theory of the origin of the universe, later developed by Gamow and others. |
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