George Lemaitre was a Belgian cosmologist and a Catholic priest that was born in the 1800's he studied both science and theology then ended up becoming the "Father Of The Big Bang." By writing a paper in 1931 he came up with the theory to the Big Bang that eventually expanded out to further research. (Soter and Tyson, 2000)
Lemaitre served as an artillery officer in his younger ages during World War I which put a halt onto his studies but soon picked back up on after the war. He chose learn theoretical physics. He worked with an English astronomer named Arthur Eddington while pursuing his studies that drove him to America where he achieved a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went back to Belgium in which he …show more content…
an unknown force — a cosmological constant — which kept the world stable." This contradicted to what Lemaitre theory was. As stated in 'A Day Without Yesterday': Georges Lemaitre & the Big Bang, by Mark Midbon, "...Lemaitre decided that the universe was expanding. He came to this conclusion after observing the reddish glow, known as a red shift, surrounding objects outside of our galaxy. If interpreted as a Doppler effect, this shift in color meant that the galaxies were moving away from us. Lemaitre published his calculations and his reasoning in Annales de la Societe scientifique de Bruxelles in 1927." He published this paper with little to no notice, however it soon began to spring . In 1929 Edwin Hubble, an American Astronomer created a systematic observation that observed other galaxies helped show the red shift. The evidence soon caused the Royal Astronomical Society to study and led to a guy named Sir Arthur Eddington to find a quick solution. When George saw these new details he sent a copy to Eddington, Eddington found the paper to be well written and made it public in a newspaper called the Monthly Notice in 1931.
Lemaitre served as an artillery officer in his younger ages during World War I which put a halt onto his studies but soon picked back up on after the war. He chose learn theoretical physics. He worked with an English astronomer named Arthur Eddington while pursuing his studies that drove him to America where he achieved a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went back to Belgium in which he …show more content…
an unknown force — a cosmological constant — which kept the world stable." This contradicted to what Lemaitre theory was. As stated in 'A Day Without Yesterday': Georges Lemaitre & the Big Bang, by Mark Midbon, "...Lemaitre decided that the universe was expanding. He came to this conclusion after observing the reddish glow, known as a red shift, surrounding objects outside of our galaxy. If interpreted as a Doppler effect, this shift in color meant that the galaxies were moving away from us. Lemaitre published his calculations and his reasoning in Annales de la Societe scientifique de Bruxelles in 1927." He published this paper with little to no notice, however it soon began to spring . In 1929 Edwin Hubble, an American Astronomer created a systematic observation that observed other galaxies helped show the red shift. The evidence soon caused the Royal Astronomical Society to study and led to a guy named Sir Arthur Eddington to find a quick solution. When George saw these new details he sent a copy to Eddington, Eddington found the paper to be well written and made it public in a newspaper called the Monthly Notice in 1931.