Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (died 1966)

Georges Lemaître

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. He was the first to argue that the recession of galaxies is evidence of an expanding universe and to connect the observational Hubble–Lemaître law with the solution to the Einstein field equations in the general theory of relativity for a homogenous and isotropic universe. That work led Lemaître to propose what he called the "hypothesis of the primeval atom", now regarded as the first formulation of the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.

Born

1894

July 17

Died

1966

Era

1890s

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Georges, in brief

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1894 Born
1966 Died

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180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
1048 Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.
1203 The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
1402 Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.

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The world in 1966

When Georges departed

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Carlos Alberto Torres 1944–2016 Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2016) Connie Hawkins 1942– American basketball player (died 2017) Eleanor Hadley 1916– American economist and policymaker (died 2007) Frank Olson 1910–1953 American chemist and microbiologist (died 1953) James Somerville 1882–1949 English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (died 1949) Jason Clarke 1969– Australian actor Lou Boudreau 1917–2001 American baseball player and manager (born 1917) Oliver Ekman-Larsson 1991– Swedish ice hockey player Paul Delaroche 1797–1856 French painter and academic (died 1856)

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Also born in 1894

Aino Aalto 1894–1949 Finnish architect and designer (born 1894) Alfred Kinsey 1894–1956 American biologist and academic (born 1894) Amalie Sara Colquhoun 1894–1974 Australian landscape and portrait painter (born 1894) Arthur Fiedler 1894–1979 American conductor (died 1979) Arthur Gilligan 1894– English cricketer (died 1976) Benjamin Graham 1894–1976 British-American economist, professor, and investor (died 1976) Bertha Lutz 1894–1976 Brazilian feminist and scientist (died 1976) Elizabeth Dilling 1894–1966 American author and activist (died 1966) Henry Hazlitt 1894– American economist and philosopher (died 1993)

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