Category:Georges Lemaître

Georges Lemaître
	Belgian scientist and priest
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Date of birth	17 July 1894; Charleroi
Date of death	20 June 1966; Leuven
Country of citizenship	Belgium;
Educated at	St Edmund's College; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Catholic University of Leuven;
Doctoral advisor	Charles-Jean de la Vallée Poussin; Arthur Eddington;
Occupation	Catholic priest; astrophysicist; cosmologist; mathematician; university teacher; astronomer; physicist;
Employer	Harvard University;
Member of	Pontifical Academy of Sciences; Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL;
Field of work	astrophysics; cosmology;
Award received	Francqui Prize (1934); Eddington Medal (1953); Prix Jules Janssen (1936); Mendel Medal (1934);
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English: Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître ( 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. He was also the first to derive what is now known as the Hubble's law and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.

Français : Georges Lemaître (Monseigneur) ( Charleroi, 17 juillet 1894 – Louvain, 20 juin 1966) est un chanoine catholique, astronome et physicien belge. Sa théorie de l'atome primitif visant à expliquer l'origine de l'Univers est à la base de la théorie du Big Bang.