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Georges Lemaître was a Belgian astronomer and Catholic priest whose work profoundly shaped modern cosmology. He developed the concept of an expanding universe in 1927, initially proposing it as a solution to observed stellar velocities. His “primeval atom” hypothesis—the idea of a single, dense initial state from which the universe expanded—laid crucial groundwork for the widely accepted Big Bang theory. Lemaître’s insights are particularly relevant for scientists and students studying early universe formation and the evolution of cosmological models.
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