Philosophy
Georges Lemaître
July 17th, 1894 to June 20th, 1966
This Big Bang will not end as to whom originated the notion.
Georges (Henri) Lemaître was a Belgian astronomer and cosmologist, born in Charleroi, Belgium. He was also a civil engineer, army officer, and ordained priest. He did research on cosmic rays and the three-body problem. Lemaître formulated (1927) the modern big-bang theory. He reasoned that if the universe was expanding now, then the further you go in the past, the universe’s contents must have been closer together. He envisioned that at some point in the distant past, all the matter in the universe was in an exceedingly dense state, crushed into a single object he called the "primeval super-atom" which exploded, with all its constituent parts rushing away. This theory was later developed by Gamow and others.
Georges Lemaître [Wikipedia]
Big Bang [Wikipedia]
Credit where credit is due--"Big Bang"
Shades of Ralph Alpher...Fritz Zwicky
The astronomy/cosmology debates of the 1930's & 1940's
- Expansion Of The Universe...who Conceived This Notion?
Abstract... The recent literature of history of astronomy and cosmology has included a good many suggestions for "who first recognized the expansion of the universe?" with cases having been made for Lemaître, Lundmark, de Sitter, Slipher, Shapley, Friedmann,...
- Georges Claude...the "neon Sign"
Georges Claude on the left 1926 Georges Claude September 24th, 1870 to May 23rd, 1960 Georges Claude was a French engineer, chemist, and inventor of the neon light. Georges Claude [Wikipedia] Neon signs [Wikipedia]...
- George Gamow...big Bang...popular Science
I almost forgot. This is George Gamow's birthdate. The Russian/American nuclear physicist George Gamow was born Mar. 4, in Odessa, in the Ukraine. Gamow came to the United States in the 1930s. During the War, when all the American nuclear physicists...
- Book Review-- "big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe"
A review from the Telegraph: In his forthcoming book, bestselling author Simon Singh rewrites the history of the most important scientific discovery of all time. The Big Bang is perhaps the most famous and fundamental theory in the whole of science. As...
- Sir Hermann Bondi--steady State Universe
Sir Hermann Bondi I well remember him working with Fred Hoyle and promotion of the "steady state universe" hypothesis. The Universe at Large, Relativity and Common Sense, The Steady State Theory of the Expanding Universe [with Professor Thomas Gold],...
Philosophy
Georges Lemaître and the "Big Bang" [aka "hypothesis of the primeval atom"]
Georges LemaîtreJuly 17th, 1894 to June 20th, 1966
This Big Bang will not end as to whom originated the notion.
Georges (Henri) Lemaître was a Belgian astronomer and cosmologist, born in Charleroi, Belgium. He was also a civil engineer, army officer, and ordained priest. He did research on cosmic rays and the three-body problem. Lemaître formulated (1927) the modern big-bang theory. He reasoned that if the universe was expanding now, then the further you go in the past, the universe’s contents must have been closer together. He envisioned that at some point in the distant past, all the matter in the universe was in an exceedingly dense state, crushed into a single object he called the "primeval super-atom" which exploded, with all its constituent parts rushing away. This theory was later developed by Gamow and others.
Georges Lemaître [Wikipedia]
Big Bang [Wikipedia]
Credit where credit is due--"Big Bang"
Shades of Ralph Alpher...Fritz Zwicky
The astronomy/cosmology debates of the 1930's & 1940's
- Expansion Of The Universe...who Conceived This Notion?
Abstract... The recent literature of history of astronomy and cosmology has included a good many suggestions for "who first recognized the expansion of the universe?" with cases having been made for Lemaître, Lundmark, de Sitter, Slipher, Shapley, Friedmann,...
- Georges Claude...the "neon Sign"
Georges Claude on the left 1926 Georges Claude September 24th, 1870 to May 23rd, 1960 Georges Claude was a French engineer, chemist, and inventor of the neon light. Georges Claude [Wikipedia] Neon signs [Wikipedia]...
- George Gamow...big Bang...popular Science
I almost forgot. This is George Gamow's birthdate. The Russian/American nuclear physicist George Gamow was born Mar. 4, in Odessa, in the Ukraine. Gamow came to the United States in the 1930s. During the War, when all the American nuclear physicists...
- Book Review-- "big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe"
A review from the Telegraph: In his forthcoming book, bestselling author Simon Singh rewrites the history of the most important scientific discovery of all time. The Big Bang is perhaps the most famous and fundamental theory in the whole of science. As...
- Sir Hermann Bondi--steady State Universe
Sir Hermann Bondi I well remember him working with Fred Hoyle and promotion of the "steady state universe" hypothesis. The Universe at Large, Relativity and Common Sense, The Steady State Theory of the Expanding Universe [with Professor Thomas Gold],...