06 April 2022

Georges Lemaître: The Priest Who Discovered the Big Bang

Lesson Twenty-Six of Aquinas 101, with Jonathan Lunine, PhD, David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University.


Did you know that Georges Lemaître, the scientist who discovered the big bang theory, was a Catholic priest? Prof. Jonathan Lunine, a professor from Cornell University, shares the little-known story of Fr. Georges Lemaître, the father of the big bang theory.

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