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Technically it was Friedmann who first theorised that the universe could be expanding, but Lemaître came to the same conclusion independently later. https://en
by okket 8y ago
Technically it was Friedmann who first theorised that the universe could be expanding, but Lemaître came to the same conclusion independently later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Friedmann#Professorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Friedmann#Professors...
- BlackFly 8y agoFor the full story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann%E2%80%93Lema%C3%AEtre%E2%80%93Robertson%E2%80%93Walker_metric#Name_and_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann%E2%80%93Lema%C3%AEtr...
- SiempreViernes 8y agoA different part of the full story: http://home.fnal.gov/~skent/blunder.html http://home.fnal.gov/~skent/blunder.html
- cygx 8y agoLemaître discovered Hubble's law, though ;)
- SiempreViernes 8y agoTrue, but Lemaître actually calculated the Hubble constant[1], partly using data published by Hubble (but before him). [1]: http://home.fnal.gov/~skent/blunder.html http://home.fnal.gov/~skent/blunder.html