Georges Lemaître Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids The Reverend Monsignor Georges Lemaître
Sculpture of Lemaître
Born	(1894-07-17)17 July 1894 Charleroi, Belgium
Died	20 June 1966(1966-06-20) (aged 71) Leuven, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Alma mater	Catholic University of Leuven St Edmund's House, Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Theory of the expansion of the universe Big Bang theory Lemaître coordinates
Awards	Francqui Prize (1934) Eddington Medal (1953)
Scientific career
Fields	Cosmology Astrophysics Mathematics
Institutions	Catholic University of Leuven
Doctoral advisor	Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin (Leuven) Arthur Eddington (Cambridge) Harlow Shapley (MIT)
Doctoral students	Louis Philippe Bouckaert, Rene van der Borght

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Monsignor Georges Lemaître (Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer , mathematician and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.

He was the first person to say the Universe is growing. Some people think it was Edwin Hubble, but that is not correct. Lemaître was also the first to make the Hubble's law and the Hubble constant. Lemaître also started what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe. He called it his 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'.

General relativity

G_{\mu \nu} + \Lambda g_{\mu \nu}= {8\pi G\over c^4} T_{\mu \nu}

Einstein field equations

Important concepts
Special relativity Equivalence principle World line · Riemannian geometry

Phenomena
Kepler problem · Lenses · Waves Frame-dragging · Geodetic effect Event horizon · Singularity Black hole

Equations
Linearized Gravity Post-Newtonian formalism Einstein field equations Friedmann equations ADM formalism BSSN formalism

Advanced theories
Kaluza–Klein Quantum gravity

Solutions
Schwarzschild Reissner-Nordström · Gödel Kerr · Kerr-Newman Kasner · Taub-NUT · Milne · Robertson-Walker pp-wave

Scientists
Einstein · Minkowski · Eddington Lemaître · Schwarzschild Robertson · Kerr · Friedman Chandrasekhar · Hawking Penrose

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Millikan, Lemaître and Einstein after Lemaître's lecture at the California Institute of Technology in January 1933.

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