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Lemaitre

le·maitre

US/lɪˈmeɪtrʌ/ uncommon

noun

1.

Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966)

Origin

From French Lemaître Literally, “the master”.

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