Georges Lemaître

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1. When was Georges Lemaître born?July 17, 1894
2. Where was Georges Lemaître born?Louvain, Belgium
3. What is Georges Lemaître known for?Formulating the Big Bang theory and the Hubble-Lemaître law
4. What is the career?Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician
5. Who was Georges Lemaître?Georges Lemaître was a Belgian priest and scientist who studied physics and mathematics. He helped explain why the universe is expanding and how it began.
6. What did Lemaître discover about galaxies?He showed that galaxies are moving away from us, like dots on an inflating balloon. This idea became the Hubble‑Lemaître Law.

General Relativity: Albert Einstein's theory describing gravity as the curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy.
Cosmological Constant: A term in Einstein's field equations that represents a constant energy density of space, potentially driving cosmic expansion.
Primeval Atom: Lemaître's term for the hypothetical initial state of the universe, a single, dense point from which expansion began.