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Georges Lemaître

1894 - 1966

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Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître ( lə-MET-rə; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləmɛːtʁ] ; 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. He was the first to argue that the recession of galaxies is evidence of an expanding universe and to connect the observational Hubble–Lemaître law with the solution to the Einstein field equations in the general theory of relativity for a homogenous and isotropic universe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Lemaître has received more than 2,881,296 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Georges Lemaître is the 72nd most popular physicist (down from 52nd in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Belgium (down from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Physicist.

Georges Lemaître is most famous for his theory of the expanding universe. His theory was that the universe began as a small point of matter and has been expanding ever since.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georges Lemaître ranks 72 out of 851. Before him are Johannes Stark, Rudolf Clausius, Otto von Guericke, Lev Landau, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, and Carl David Anderson. After him are James Chadwick, Lawrence Bragg, Ernest Lawrence, Louis de Broglie, Mikhail Lomonosov, and Manne Siegbahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Georges Lemaître ranks 8. Before him are Gavrilo Princip, Rudolf Hess, Edward VIII, Aldous Huxley, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Maximilian Kolbe. After him are John Ford, Boris III of Bulgaria, Moshe Sharett, Jean Renoir, Norbert Wiener, and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. Among people deceased in 1966, Georges Lemaître ranks 6. Before him are Walt Disney, André Breton, Buster Keaton, Alberto Giacometti, and Anna Akhmatova. After him are Sayyid Qutb, Sergei Korolev, Ken Miles, Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, and Jean Arp.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Georges Lemaître ranks 31 out of 1,190. Before him are Albert I of Belgium (1875), Samo (600), Baudouin of Belgium (1930), Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (1480), William III of the Netherlands (1817), and Mary of Hungary (1505). After him are Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1697), Eddy Merckx (1945), Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564), Abraham Ortelius (1527), Jacques Brel (1929), and Guillaume Du Fay (1397).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Belgium

Among physicists born in Belgium, Georges Lemaître ranks 1. After him are François Englert (1932), Joseph Plateau (1801), Théophile de Donder (1872), Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Léon Rosenfeld (1904), and Conny Aerts (1966).

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