Edouard Lemaitre

Definitions of Edouard Lemaitre
  1. noun
    Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966)
    synonyms: Georges Henri Lemaitre, Lemaitre
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    cosmologist
    an astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe
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