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"