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Georges Lemaitre
- Astronomer, Physicist,
Catholic, Priest
- Father of the Big Bang and
modern cosmology
- From
Belgium
- Full name was Georges
Henri Joseph Edouard
Lemaitre
- Born 17th July 1894
in Charleroi, Belgium
- Died 20th June 1966
Leuvan, Belgium aged 71
- Before becoming a physicist,
he was in the Belgian army
as an artillery officer
- Although he took an interest
in it, Lemaitre did not study
physics properly until after he
had left the army when the
war was over
- After one of Lemaitre and Einstein's
conferences in California, Einstein
stood up applauded, and said, "This is
the most beautiful and satisfactory
explanation of creation to which I
have ever listened"