Lemaître

Le·maî·tre

 (lə-mĕt′rə), Georges Henri or Édouard 1894-1966.

Belgian astrophysicist who proposed the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe (1927).

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Lemaître

(French ləmɛtr)

n

(Biography) 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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Le•maî•tre

(ləˈmɛ tr^ə)

n.

Georges Édouard, 1894–1966, Belgian astrophysicist.

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Lemaitre - Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966) Edouard Lemaitre, Georges Henri Lemaitre

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