Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy

• 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
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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...