(1933)
(~age 39)
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(1894 – 1966)
(a belgian roman catholic priest)
professor of physics and astronomer at the Catholic University of Leuven
sometimes used the title Abbé or Monseigneur
‘hypothesis of the primeval atom’
classical education at a Jesuit secondary school (Collège du Sacré-Coeur, Charleroi)
Lemaître began studying civil engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven at the age of 17
in 1914, he interrupted his studies to serve as an artillery officer in the Belgian army for the duration of World War I
received the Military Cross with palms
after the war, he studied physics and mathematics, and began to prepare for priesthood
obtained his doctorate in 1920 with a thesis entitled l’Approximation des fonctions de plusieurs variables réelles (Approximation of functions of several real variables), written under the direction of Charles de la Vallée-Poussin
ordained a priest in 1923
In 1923, he became a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Cambridge, spending a year at St Edmund’s House (now St Edmund’s College, Cambridge). He worked with Arthur Eddington who initiated him into modern cosmology, stellar astronomy, and numerical analysis
He spent the following year at Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Harlow Shapley, who had just gained a name for his work on nebulae, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he registered for the doctorate in sciences
In 1925, on his return to Belgium, he became a part-time lecturer at the Catholic University of Leuven
Lemaître kept a strong interest in the development of computers and, even more, in the problems of language and programming. This interest grew with age until it absorbed him almost completely
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*20 JUNE 1966*
(died @ ‘age 71’)
(he died shortly after having learned of the discovery of ‘cosmic microwave background radiation’, which provided further evidence for his intuitions about the ‘birth’ of the ‘universe’)
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