Another example is Georges Lemaître[0] who "was the first to theorize that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by an expanding universe", as well

Another example is Georges Lemaître[0] who "was the first to theorize that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by an expanding universe", as well as the Big Bang theory. These were not ideas Einstein favored, at least not at first. Why should we be surprised people disagreed? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre