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lemaitre
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1835–1915,
French critic and dramatist.
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Abbé Georges É·douard
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1894–1966,
Belgian astrophysicist and priest: formulated big-bang theory.
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Lemaître
(
French
ləmɛtr)
—
n
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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