Have you ever heard about the ”big bang theory”?Not the tv show. The theory about how the great universe began. I believe a majority of people have heard about it but do u know who was the person first suggests the big bang theory? His name is Georges Lemaître, a Belgian priest. Yes!its Brought up by a priest. Unbelievable right? Read more to get some knowledge on him!
Georges Lemaître, he was born on July 17, 1894, Charleroi, Belgium, and died on June 20, 1966, Leuven, aBelgian ,a Jesuit trained Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain, he also known as the man who can conceive the beginning of the universe.
Georges Lemaître was born in a well off,devoutly Catholic family. At age nine, he knew his vocation; become a priest and a scientist. While he was trying to achieve his life plan, the World War One hit. George and his brother volunteered to defend their small country.
After the war George changed his direction and completed studies in mathematics, physics, and Thomist philosophy. In 1920, he began studies at a seminary in Malines, Belgium, where he was ordained as a priest in 1923.
In 1927, he come up with Hubble law, the relation of the velocities and the distances of the galaxies. later that year, Lemaître had a chance to discuss with Einstein. Einstein accepted his mathematics, but rejected his physical interpretation
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