Lemaître, Abbé Georges (1894-1966)

Belgian born Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, and astrophysicist. In a 1927 note he proposed that the universe originated from the explosion of concentration of matter and energy that he called a "cosmic egg" or "primeval atom." This was one of the first expressions of what is today the <!g>Big Bang Theory of cosmic origins.

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