Georges Lemaître was born into a bourgeois family in southern Belgium, in a town called Carleroi.
1911
Comieza the mining engineering degree at the Catholic University of Leuven. 1914
the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered and participated in the counting as a gunner. 1919
When the war ends, returns to her studies but change their orientation: left engineering and passed physics and mathematics.
finished his studies at the University, decided to become a priest and entered the seminary of Mechelen. 1923
was ordained a priest and gets two research grants to further their studies in physics and march to the University of Cambridge, where he is an alumnus of Arthur Eddington. 1924
next year, thanks to another scholarship that had been achieved, continued his preparation at the University of Harvard and MIT, where he won a doctorate.
While in U.S., meets E Hubble, who catches up with astronomical observations of the moment. 1925
Back to Leuven to become a professor at the university. 1927
Write a paper on cosmology in which he speaks of the universe's expansion.
back to the United States to find evidence to support his theory. There is great reluctance. 1931
Write another work that says the universe is not eternal but had a beginning. It relies on cosmic rays to confirm his theory. Misunderstanding becomes hostile.
1936 Elected member of the academy Pontificia of Sciences, along with Niels Bohr, Gugliermo Marconi, Robert Millikan, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford and Charles de la Vallée Poussin, among others. 1948
Surge steady-state theory that rivals that of Lemaître. Fred Hoyle's theory Belgian baptized as the great "points" (big bang).
1960
is elected President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
1965
Penzias and Wilson
detect background radiation, which is capable of giving the thumbs up for the big bang theory. 1966
dies Georges Lemaître. Archives
Lemaître, Catholic University of Leuven, Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics Georges Lemaître, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).
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