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Georges Edouard Lemaître

Born

in Charleroi, Belgium

July 17, 1894

Died

June 20, 1966

Genre

Cosmology, Astrophysics, Mathematics

Influences

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Belgian astrophysicist Georges Henri Édouard Lemaître proposed the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe in 1927. This scientific theory describes the origin of all space, time, matter, and energy, 13.7 billion years ago, from the violent expansion of a singular point of extremely high density and temperature.

This associate of royal astronomical society and Jesuit-trained Catholic priest, mathematician, and astronomer, served as professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He first identified that a theory of an expanding universe, which Edwin Hubble observationally confirmed quickly afterwards, can explain the recession of nearby galaxies. He first derived the now known Hubble-Lemaître law and made the first estimat ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 12 ratings · 3 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by Rob Colson (Editor), Leighton Pugh (Narrator), Thales of Miletus (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 1,402 ratings — published 2014 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	BEAUMARCHAIS 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1949 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Points of View: From Kipling to Graham Greene. by André Maurois, Georges Edouard Lemaître really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1968 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From cubism to surrealism in French literature liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jean Giraudoux: The writer and his work it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1971	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning the Physics of Einstein with Georges Lemaitre: Before the Big Bang Theory by Georges Edouard Lemaître, Jan Govaerts (Editor), Jean-François Stoffel (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Communion des enfants 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Beaumarchais 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The evolution of the world can be compared to a display of fireworks that has just ended: some few red wisps, ashes and smoke. Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the slow fading of the suns, and we try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of worlds.”
― Georges Lemaître

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“Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses.”
― Georges Lemaitre

tags: faith, reason, relatively, science, science-and-faith

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“was interested in truth from the point of view of salvation just as much as in truth from the point of view of scientific certainty. It appeared to me that there were two paths to truth, and I decided to follow both of them.”
― Georges Lemaître

tags: science, truth

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