'Father of Big Bang theory': Google Doodle honours Georges Lemaître’s 124th birthday.
His theory was presented in one of his academic papers in 1931, and it is now widely known as the “Big Bang” theory.
The astronomer and professor was born on July 17, 1894, in Charleroi, Belgium, and began studying civil engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven at the age of 17.
He completed his doctorate in 1920 and was ordained as a priest in 1923.
He became a post-graduate student in astronomy at the University of Cambridge in 1923, before spending the following year at Harvard College Observatory in the US.
Mr Lemaître returned to Belgium in 1925 and became a part-time lecturer at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he started to work on his groundbreaking research.
He published his cutting-edge theory that the universe was expanding in his famed report in 1927, but it did not specifically link to the notion of the Big Bang theory.
After outlining his theory of the universe's creation to the scientists, Mr Einstein is reported to have said: “This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened.”
Mr Lemaître received a number of accolades during his life, including the Prix Jules Janssen in 1936, the highest award from the French Astronomical Aociety.
He was also elected a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium in 1941, and was awarded the Eddington Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in 1953.
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