'The life and work of Professor Georges Lemaître' by Rev Dr Jeremy Yates from new technology 2020 article Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 53 min 19 sec ✓ Published: 20-May-2020
Description: Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), a Jesuit-educated Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven, was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies could be explained by a theory of an expanding universe. His theory was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble. Ironically, it was Lemaître who was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble’s law, or the Hubble-Lemaître law, and who made the f
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