lemaître in A Sentence

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    They believed that Lemaître's religious background clouded his scientific process.

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    Cardinal Mercier, recognizing Lemaître's talents, allowed him to go study at the prestigious Harvard Observatory.

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    On September 23, 1923, Lemaître was ordained as a priest by his spiritual teacher, Cardinal Mercier.

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    Impressed with Lemaître's findings, but not swayed, he told him,"Your calculations are correct, but your physics are abominable.".

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    During his spare time,(now) Father Lemaître continued his scientific studies, especially on the theories of general and special relativity.

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    After this publishing, it became apparent to both skeptics and Lemaître himself that there was something missing from this theory.

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    Further, Lemaître discovered what has since become known as"Hubble's law," a rate of expansion related to the galaxies' distance from Earth.

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    A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître first suggested the big bang theory in the 1920s when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom.

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    In 1927, George Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and Roman Catholic priest, interpreted Friedman's equations and proposed that the recession of nebulae was due to the"expansion of the universe".

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    In later life, Lemaître devoted a considerable amount of his time to computers and the emerging field of Computer Science, including significant work with Fast Fourier transforms and computer languages.

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    George Lemaître, a contemporary Belgian physicist, interpreted data from Hubble and others as evidence of an expanding universe, a possibility permitted by Einstein's recently published field equations of general relativity.

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    The idea that would become the Big Bang Theory(science, not the show;-) was proposed by a Catholic Priest, likely one of the greatest scientists you have never heard of, Georges Lemaître.

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    In 1931, wishing to make his theories more widely read, Lemaître sent his article to Sir Arthur Eddington, a British astrophysicist and someone who wanted to make scientific theories accessible to everyone.

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    Quick Fact 822: The idea that would become the Big Bang Theory(science, not the show;-) was proposed by a Catholic Priest, likely one of the greatest scientists you have never heard of, Georges Lemaître.

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    In a May 9, 1931 letter to Nature journal Lemaître wrote:“If the world has begun with a single quantum, the notions of space and time would altogether fail to have any meaning at the beginning;

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    Only a few months later, using Eddington's 1931 talk about the end of the universe entitled“On the End of the World From the Standpoint of Mathematical Physics” as a guide, Lemaître came up with another groundbreaking theory.

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    (Ironically, given Lemaître's math and theories were generally sound given the state of scientific knowledge of the day, in many of these cases it was the dissenting scientists allowing their own bias's to influence their perception of Lemaître's work.).

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    Unfortunately for Lemaître, his Nobel Prize-worthy paper(though at the time astronomers couldn't win Nobel Prizes for their work in astronomy as it wasn't yet considered part of Physics) had little impact on the scientific community due to it being published in a journal hardly read outside of Belgium.

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    Very shortly before Lemaître, another scientist also hit on similar ideas as Lemaître concerning the expansion of the universe, Alexander Friedmann, whose work was little known despite being published in the well-known Zeitschrift für Physik and that he had shared his ideas with Einstein, which Einstein at the time dismissed- a fact which later became one of Einstein's biggest regrets of his scientific career.

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