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How a Priest Discovered the Greatest Theory of All Time
How Georges Lemaître discovered the Big Bang Theory.
Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom
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Special thanks to the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) for supplying many of the photos of Lemaître found in this story https://uclouvain.be/en/index.html
Sources:
0:59 Photo of university Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
1:11 Belgian War Cross Fdutil, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:50 Hubble paper: PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168
4:56 Red shift diagram: Georg Wiora (Dr. Schorsch) created this image from the original JPG.Derivative work:Kes47, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
4:59 Hubble paper: PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168
5:31 Lemaître’s paper translated into English: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March 1931 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/91/5/490/985169
7:33 European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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By NewsthinkHow a Priest Discovered the Greatest Theory of All Time
How Georges Lemaître discovered the Big Bang Theory.
Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom
https://twitter.com/cindypom
Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com
Thank you to our Patrons, including Ronil Patel, Chesky Neceski, Austin Grant, Tom Eng, Tim Desir, Ryan Bresser, Neo Ge, Steven Bartlett, Will Lathrop
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink
Special thanks to the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) for supplying many of the photos of Lemaître found in this story https://uclouvain.be/en/index.html
Sources:
0:59 Photo of university Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
1:11 Belgian War Cross Fdutil, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:50 Hubble paper: PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168
4:56 Red shift diagram: Georg Wiora (Dr. Schorsch) created this image from the original JPG.Derivative work:Kes47, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
4:59 Hubble paper: PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168
5:31 Lemaître’s paper translated into English: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March 1931 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/91/5/490/985169
7:33 European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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