Georges Lemaître
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (French: [ʒɔʁʒə ləmɛtʁ] ( listen); 17 Julie 1894 – 20 Juin 1966) wis a Belgian priest, astronomer an professor o pheesics at the Catholic Varsity o Leuven.[1] He proponed the theory o the expansion o the universe, widely misattributit tae Edwin Hubble.[2][3] He wis the first tae derive whit is nou kent as Hubble's law an made the first estimation o whit is nou cried the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, twa years before Hubble's airticle.[4][5][6][7] Lemaître an aa proposed whit acame kent as the Big Bang theory o the origin o the Universe, which he cried his "hypothesis o the primeval atom" or the "Cosmic Egg".[8]
Msgr Georges Lemaître | |
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Born | 17 Julie 1894 Charleroi, Belgium |
Dee'd | 20 Juin 1966 Leuven, Belgium | (aged 71)
Naitionality | Belgian |
Alma mater | Catholic Varsity o Leuven Varsity o Cambridge Massachusetts Institute o Technology (PhD) |
Kent for | Theory o the expansion o the universe Big Bang theory Lemaître coordinates |
Awairds | Francqui Prize (1934) Eddington Medal (1953) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cosmology Astrophysics |
Institutions | Catholic Varsity o Leuven |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin (Leuven); Harlow Shapley (MIT) |
Doctoral students | Louis Philippe Bouckaert, Rene van der Borght |
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References
eedit- ↑ "Obituary: Georges Lemaitre". Physics Today. 19 (9): 119. September 1966. doi:10.1063/1.3048455. Archived frae the original on 6 Apryle 2020. Retrieved 3 Februar 2016.
- ↑ Reich, Eugenie Samuel (27 Juin 2011). "Edwin Hubble in translation trouble". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2011.385.
- ↑ Livio, Mario (10 November 2011). "Lost in translation: Mystery of the missing text solved". Nature. 479 (7372): 171–173. Bibcode:2011Natur.479..171L. doi:10.1038/479171a.
- ↑ Sidney van den Bergh arxiv.org 6 Jun 2011 arXiv:1106.1195v1 [physics.hist-ph]
- ↑ David L. Block arxiv.org 20 Jun 2011 & 8 Jul 2011 arXiv:1106.3928v2 [physics.hist-ph]
- ↑ Eugenie Samuel Reich Published online 27 June 2011| Nature| doi:10.1038/news.2011.385
- ↑ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7372/full/479171a.html
- ↑ "Big bang theory is introduced - 1927". A Science Odyssey. WGBH. Retrieved 31 Julie 2014.