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Google Doodle - Georges Lemaitre
July 23 , 2018
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- Google celebrated the 124th birth anniversary of Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaitre with a doodle.
- Lemaitre is credited with the Big Bang Theory
- Big Bang Theory says that the universe originated from a single atom, which he referred to as the Cosmic Egg.
- He is also believed to be the first to have come up with the theory that the universe is expanding.
- In 1934, Lemaître received the Francqui Prize, the highest Belgian scientific distinction.
- In 1953, he was given the inaugural Eddington Medal awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society.
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