{"id":80688,"date":"2018-07-16T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-father-of-the-big-bang-theory"},"modified":"2018-07-16T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:22:27","slug":"the-father-of-the-big-bang-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-father-of-the-big-bang-theory","title":{"rendered":"The Father of the Big Bang Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monsignor Georges Lema\u00eetre was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, physicist and astronomer. He is usually credited with the first definitive formulation of the idea of an expanding universe and what was to become known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe, which Lema\u00eetre himself called his \u201chypothesis of the primeval atom\u201d or the \u201cCosmic Egg\u201d.<\/p>\n

Georges Henri Joseph \u00c9douard Lema\u00eetre was born on 17 July 1894 at Charleroi, Belgium. After a classical education at a Jesuit secondary school, the Coll\u00e8ge du Sacr\u00e9-Coeur in Charleroi, he began studying civil engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain) at the age of 17. In 1914, he interrupted his studies to serve as an artillery officer in the Belgian army for the duration of World War I, at the end of which he received the Military Cross with palms.<\/p>\n

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Monsignor Georges Lema\u00eetre was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, physicist and astronomer. He is usually credited with the first definitive formulation of the idea of an expanding universe and what was to become known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe, which Lema\u00eetre himself called his \u201chypothesis of the primeval atom\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,9,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-engineering","category-military","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}