Georges Lemaitre is the topic these days’s Google Doodle.
Priest, astronomer and physics teacher Georges Lemaitre was born upon 17 July, 1894, and Tuesday’s Google Doodle commemorates what would’ve been his 124 th birthday.
Albert Einstein proposed Lemaitre to get Belgium’s greatest clinical honor.
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Lemaitre proposed that deep space started as a single primitive atom and explained his theory as “the Cosmic Egg exploding at the moment of the creation”– which later on ended up being referred to as the Big Bang theory– in 1931.
He likewise mentioned his belief that deep space was broadening in a 1927 paper and Edwin Hubble would corroborate this concept 2 years later on.
In 1934, Lemaitre was offered Belgium’s greatest clinical honor, the Francqui reward. One of his nominators was Albert Einstein, who had actually formerly dismissed the physics behind his Cosmic Egg theory as “atrocious.”
Lemaitre passed away on June 20, 1966, however would have a crater on the moon called after him in 1970.
