Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy

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 cos...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Holder, Rodney D. (Editor), Mitton, Simon (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Series:Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 395
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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.