GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Georges Lemaître, (1894-1966), Belgian cosmologist, Catholic priest, and father of the Big Bang theory.

Detailed explanation-2: -LeMaitre, born in Belgium, was a monsignor in the Catholic church. He was fascinated by physics and studied Einstein’s laws of gravitation, published in 1915. He deduced that if Einstein’s theory were true (and there had been good evidence for it since 1919), it meant the universe must be expanding.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lemaître also proposed the “Big Bang theory” of the origin of the universe, calling it the “hypothesis of the primeval atom", and later calling it “the beginning of the world".

Detailed explanation-4: -This illustration shows American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) on the right and Belgian priest and cosmologist Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) on the left. Based on new evidence, both scientists should share credit for independently uncovering evidence for the expanding universe in the late 1920s.