Georges Lemaître

Belgian priest and astrophysicist

Georges Lemaître was a Belgian priest and astrophysicist who is best known for his work on the Big Bang theory. He was born in 1894 in Etterbeek, Belgium and studied mathematics and physics at the Catholic University of Leuven. Lemaître went on to become a professor of mathematics at the Catholic University of Leuven and later at the University of Cambridge. He was a key figure in the development of the Big Bang theo...