Physicist

Georges Lemaître

1894 - 1966

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His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2024). Georges Lemaître is the 106th most popular physicist (down from 72nd in 2024), the 39th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Physicist.

Georges Lemaître is most famous for his theory of the expanding universe. His theory was that the universe began as a small point of matter and has been expanding ever since.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Georges Lemaître ranks 106 out of 851. Before him are Eugene Wigner, Donald A. Glaser, Aage Bohr, Thomas Young, Peter Debye, and Mikhail Lomonosov. After him are Hannes Alfvén, Dennis Gabor, Clinton Davisson, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Peter Higgs, and Ernest Lawrence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Georges Lemaître ranks 8. Before him are Nikita Khrushchev, Rudolf Hess, Gavrilo Princip, Aldous Huxley, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. After him are Boris III of Bulgaria, Jean Renoir, Maximilian Kolbe, John Ford, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Joseph Roth. Among people deceased in 1966, Georges Lemaître ranks 7. Before him are Walt Disney, André Breton, Buster Keaton, Anna Akhmatova, Margaret Sanger, and Peter Debye. After him are Alberto Giacometti, Sepp Dietrich, Jean Arp, Sayyid Qutb, Giuseppe Farina, and Sergei Korolev.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Georges Lemaître ranks 39 out of NaN. Before him are Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (1480), Baudouin of Belgium (1930), Albert I of Belgium (1875), Mary of Hungary (1505), Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1697), and Eleanor of Austria (1498). After him are William III of the Netherlands (1817), Jacques Brel (1929), Hergé (1907), Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564), Henri La Fontaine (1854), and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864).

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Among Physicists In Belgium

Among physicists born in Belgium, Georges Lemaître ranks 1. After him are François Englert (1932), Joseph Plateau (1801), Théophile de Donder (1872), Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Léon Rosenfeld (1904), and Conny Aerts (1966).

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