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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy
  name:
    name part: Holder, Rodney D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Mitton, Simon.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 201 p. online resource.
  abstract: The year 2011 marked the 80th anniversary of Georges Lemaître’s primeval atom model of the universe, forerunner of the modern day Big Bang theory. Prompted by this momentous anniversary the Royal Astronomical Society decided to publish a volume of essays on the life, work and faith of this great cosmologist, who was also a Roman Catholic priest. The papers presented in this book examine in detail the historical, cosmological, philosophical and theological issues surrounding the development of the Big Bang theory from its beginnings in the pioneering work of Lemaître through to the modern day. This book offers the best account in English of Lemaître’s life and work. It will be appreciated by professionals and graduate students interested in the history of cosmology.
  table of contents: Georges Lemaître: A brief introduction to his science, his theology, and his impact -- Georges Lemaître: the Priest who Invented the Big Bang -- “The wildest speculation of all”: Lemaître and the primeval-atom universe -- Lemaître and Hoyle: Contrasting Characters in Science and Religion -- Lemaître, the Big Bang and the Quantum Universe -- Lemaître: Science and Religion -- Aquinas and Contemporary Cosmology: Creation and Beginnings -- Georges Lemaître and Stigler's Law of Eponymy -- Building on the Legacy of Georges Lemaître in Contemporary Cosmology -- Multiple Reasons for a Multiverse -- Multiverses, science, and ultimate causation -- Lemaître’s Prescience: The Beginning and End of the Cosmos -- Modern Cosmology and Anthropic Fine-tuning: Three approaches -- Some Theological Reflections.
  note: edited by Rodney D. Holder, Simon Mitton.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 395
  identifier: 9783642322549
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32254-9
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    record creation date: 130125
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