Astronomers vote to rename Hubble law to recognize Fr.George Lamaitre...

[Michie]

..."Father of the Big Bang."

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IAU recommends renaming Hubble’s law to include Lemaître – Astronomy Now

 

[StevenMerten]

The Reverend Monsignor
Georges Lemaître

Portrait of Lemaître

ges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, ; 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Roman catholic priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven.[2] He proposed on theoretical grounds that the universe is expanding, which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble.[3][4] He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.[5][6][7][8] Lemaître also proposed what became known as the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe, which he called his "hypothesis of the primeval atom" or the "Cosmic Egg".[9]
Quoted from: Georges Lemaître - Wikipedia

 

[StevenMerten]

Maybe they can rename he Hubble space telescope as well?