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Georges Lemaitre, Belgian cosmologist

EDITORIAL USE ONLY.^BGeorges Lemaitre ^b(1894-1966), Belgian cosmologist and astronomer. Lemaitre was ordained as a Catholic priest after studying at Louvain University in Belgium. He worked at observatories in Cambridge, England, and Harvard, USA, before returning to Louvain as professor of astronomy in 1927. There he found a solution to Einstein's equations of relativity which showed that the universe was expanding from a Big Bang'. Lemaitre theorised that the universe must consequently have started out as an extremely dense primal atom, which he thought had exploded due to radioactive decay

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Aerial view, town of Norderney, western part of the island, Wadden Sea, Norderney, island in the North Sea, East Frisian Islands, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1981 37ATarga

1968 Targa Florio.
Little Madonie Circuit, Sicily, Italy. 5th May 1968.
Rauno Aaltonen / Clive Baker (Austin-Healey Sprite Mk2), retired, action.
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Ref: 1981 - 37A