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Impact of Lemaitre’s Ideas on Modern Cosmology

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The Big Bang and Georges Lemaître

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Physical scientists have a healthy attitude toward the history of their subject: by and large we ignore it. But it is good to pause now and then and consider the careers of those who through a combination of the right talent at the propitious time have had an exceptional influence on the progress of science. As I have noted on several occasions it seems to me that Georges Lemaître played a unique and remarkable role in setting out the program of research we now call physical cosmology (1,2).

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  1. Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, USA

    P. J. E. Peebles

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  1. Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique

    A. Berger

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Peebles, P.J.E. (1984). Impact of Lemaitre’s Ideas on Modern Cosmology. In: Berger, A. (eds) The Big Bang and Georges Lemaître. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6487-7_2

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