A georges edouard lemaitre
[luh-me-truh] /ləˈmɛ trə/
noun
francois élie jules
[frahn-swa ey-lee zhyl] /frɑ̃ˈswa eɪˈli ʒül/ (show ipa), 1835–1915, french critic and dramatist.
abbé georges édouard
[french zhawrzh ey-dwar] /french ʒɔrʒ eɪˈdwar/ (show ipa), 1894–1966, belgian astrophysicist and priest: formulated big-bang theory.
lemaître
/french ləmɛtr/
noun
abbé georges (édouard) (ʒɔrʒ). 1894–1966, belgian astronomer and priest, who first proposed the big-bang theory of the universe (1927)
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