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Georges Henri Joseph Lemaître was a priest, physicist and astronomer whose controversial theory of "cosmic egg" became the most important concept in cosmology – the Big Bang theory.
Now, at the 124th anniversary of the scientist, Google honored him with a Doodle. But who is Georges Lemaître and what are his most important ideas?
Lemaître was born in Charleroi, Belgium, in 1894. His first career as a civil engineer was interrupted by World War I and the future astrophysicist eventually served in Belgium. army. At the end of the war, Lemaître turned to mathematics and physics, before joining the Catholic priesthood in 1923.
He became professor of astrophysics at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. In 1927 he published an article in French that proposed the expansion of the universe . Drawing on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, the work had little impact on the field until it was translated into English in 1931. A abridged version appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . The idea of an expanding universe led the physicist to the concept of a "cosmic egg" that exploded at the first moment of the universe. Also known as the "primordial atom," Lemaitre thought that this single point was spreading into the incomprehensible and vast universe of today.
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