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Georges Lemaître was born in Charleroi, Belgium, the eldest of four children of Joseph Lemaître, a prosperous industrialist who owned a glassworks factory, [9] and Marguerite née Lannoy, who was the daughter of a brewer. [10] Georges was educated at the Collège du Sacré-Cœur, a grammar school in Charleroi run by the Jesuits. [9]
Georges Lemaître (1894–1966) – Belgian priest and father of the Big Bang theory; Émile Licent (1876–1952) – French Jesuit trained as a natural historian; spent more than 25 years researching in Tianjin, China; Joseph Liesganig (1719–1799) – Austrian astronomer and geodesist who managed the Jesuit observatory in Vienna between 1756 ...
The Prix Georges Lemaître is an award created in 1995, in celebration of the centenary of the birth in 1894 of Georges Lemaître.The Association des Anciens et Amis de l'Université catholique de Louvain (Association of the Alumni and Friends of the Université catholique de Louvain) initiated the award, [1] as well as the Fondation Georges Lemaître (Georges Lemaître Foundation).
George LeMaitre has been the CEO of LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. (NASDAQ:LMAT) since 1992, and this article will examine...
George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory.
Byron Lee - Jamaican music pioneer (St. George's College, Jamaica) Anthony James Leggett - British professor of physics (Wimbledon College) Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet - German mathematician (Jesuit College in Cologne) Georges Lemaître - Belgian priest and astronomer (Collège du Sacré Coeur, Charleroi, Belgium)
In the history of science, he has an international reputation as the author of the first detailed biography of the scientist Georges Lemaître. [1] In 2000 Lessius [3] published the biography in the original French. [4] In 2015 an English translation was published in Kraków by Copernicus Center Press.
Albert Lemaître (c. 1864 – in or after 1906), (aka Georges Lemaître [Note 1]), was a French sporting motorist and early racing driver. He was the first petrol powered finisher in what is described as 'the world's first competitive motoring event' when he drove his Peugeot Type 7 from Paris to Rouen at 19 km/h (12 mph) in 1894.