Monsignor Georges Lemaître: Life and Work of a Visionary Belgian Physicist
Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaître was born in Charleroi (Belgium) on 17 July 1894 in a devout Catholic family. He and his brother, Jacques, served in the First World War in the volunteer corps. In the trenches, between battles, Georges gave courage to fellow soldiers by telling them about science. After the war he received a medal, the Croix de Guerre, for conspicuous bravery in the face of the enemy. He then also continued his studies at the University of Louvain, but changed field from engineering science, which he had started before the war and which had been recommended by his father,... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
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Belgian Physical Society
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26527065 |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/274927 |