Bust of Georges Lemaître in the courtyard of the College in Leuven, Belgium. Lemaître developed a hypothesis of the primeval atom about the origins of

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Bust of Georges Lemaître in the courtyard of the College in Leuven, Belgium. Lemaître developed a hypothesis of the primeval atom about the origins of the universe, which is today better known as the Big Bang theory. He is also named in the Hubble–Lemaître law.

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Size: 6720px × 4480px
Location: Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Photo credit: © Stuart Forster / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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