Physicist & priest
Georges Lemaître
A Catholic priest who proposed the expanding universe and the primeval atom two years before Hubble's observations, and was largely overlooked for it at the time.
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. He was the first to argue that the recession of galaxies is evidence of an expanding universe and to connect the observational Hubble-Lemaître law with the solution to the Einstein field equations in the general theory of relativity for a homogenous and isotropic universe. That work led Lemaître to propose what he called the "hypothesis of the primeval atom", now regarded as the first formulation of the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
- Born
- 1894-07-17, Charleroi, BelgiumA Tuesday
- Died
- 1966-06-20, Leuven, BelgiumA Monday, aged 71
- At birth
- Sun in Cancer, Moon in Capricorn
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1894-07-17, Charleroi, Belgium · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Brusselsthe zone used then
Europe/BrusselsThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 24°50′ | Direct |
| Moon | Capricorn | 20°16′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Leo | 0°27′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Gemini | 20°46′ | Direct |
| Mars | Aries | 14°38′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 23°34′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Libra | 18°58′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Scorpio | 11°15′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Gemini | 14°46′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Gemini | 11°15′ | Direct |
Death Chart
1966-06-20, Leuven, Belgium · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Brusselsthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 28°39′ | Direct |
| Moon | Cancer | 20°05′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Cancer | 21°42′ | Direct |
| Venus | Taurus | 22°54′ | Direct |
| Mars | Gemini | 15°50′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 9°40′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Pisces | 29°19′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Virgo | 15°49′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 19°50′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Virgo | 15°57′ | Direct |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Georges Lemaître was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.