Jesuit priest Georges LeMaitre did not "know about" Big Bang Cosmology, he invented the hypothesis. He did so after studying the mathematical equations of general relativity, and noting that they did not permit a Universe of infinite age and unchanging density. Like Alexander Friedmann (the two did their work independently), LeMaitre noted the only permitted solution was a Universe of increasing density (ie, one that is contracting) or decreasing density (expanding). Whereas Friedmann only noted that the math gave these two solutions and made no attempt to discern which was true about our Universe, LeMaitre proposed that our Universe was, indeed, expanding. He also speculated that this fact would explain the red shift of distant nebulae, as well as the presence of cosmic rays. Note that one of his speculations was completely right, and one was completely wrong.
LeMaitre later revised his hypothesis into one with a "cosmic egg" and "a day without yesterday" -- a hypothesis later described as having a "Big Bang."
Georges Lemaitre.
The Big Bang theory was proposed by Belgian priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître in 1927, based on his mathematical calculations of the expanding universe and the idea that the universe began as a singularity. It was further developed and popularized by American astronomer Edwin Hubble in the 1920s and 1930s.
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The concept of the Big Bang theory is credited to Belgian physicist and Catholic priest Georges Lemaître, who proposed the theory in 1927. He suggested that the universe began as a single point and has been expanding ever since.
The Jesuit priest Georges LeMaitre was, in 1927, the first to mathematically detail a cosmological study now known as the Big Bang. By the 1930's, the consensus for modeling cosmology was agreed upon based on the work of four scientists: Alexander Friedmann, Georges Lemaître, Howard Percy Robertson, and Arthur Geoffrey Walker. Occasionally referred to as the FLRW, FRW, FL, or RW (e.g., a complete or partial combination of their last initials) Universe, it presents a metric used to explain Einstein's field equation of general relativity and thus became the foundation for the currently understood version of the standard 'Big Bang Theory'.
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Father Georges Lemaitre.
Georges Lemaitre.
Proposed the Big Bang Theory.
Georges-Henri Lemaitre was born 17 July 1894 (an "8" in numerology), ordained as a priest in 1923, publishes his paper on the 'primal atom' in 1927 in Belgium, Sir Arthur Eddington had it published in English in 1933, and Lemaitre died 20 June 1966.
Georges Lemaitre proposed the Big bang in 1927.
The Big Bang theory.
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Jesuit priest Georges LeMaitre, doing so in 1927.
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