Georges Lemaître
Belgian priest and theoretical physicist
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. Wikipedia
Born: July 17, 1894, Charleroi, Belgium
Died: June 20, 1966 (age 71 years), Leuven, Belgium
Education: University of Cambridge (1923–1924), Catholic University of Leuven (1911–1920), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and more
Awards: Francqui Prize (1934) and Eddington Medal (1953)
Parents: Maguerite Lannoy and Joseph Lemaître
Church: Catholic Church
Fields: Cosmology; Astrophysics; Mathematics