Georges Lemaître, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georges Lemaître

Belgian scientist and priest

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1894

Place of Birth: Charleroi, Wallonia, Belgium

Date of Death: 20-Jun-1966

Profession: physicist, mathematician, Catholic priest, theologian, university teacher, cosmologist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître ( l?-MET-r?, French: [???? l?m??t?] (listen); 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Jesuit trained Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.
He was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by a theory of an expanding universe, which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble.
He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, or the Hubble–Lemaître law, and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.
Lemaître also proposed what later became known as the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe, initially calling it the "hypothesis of the primeval atom".