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Question: Who is known as the "Father of the Big Bang"?
Category: Science > Astronomy & Space
Keywords: Father of the Big Bang, Georges Lemaitre
Type: who
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Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest, came to be known as the "Father of the Big Bang". Lemaitre proposed that the universe began as a single primordial atom of energy, something hot and dense that exploded, causing space to expand outward. In the late 1940s, George Gamow, a Russian-American physicist, conceived of the Big Bang theory as we know it today. He and his colleagues proposed that if a big bang had occurred, it would have left an afterglow, traces of background radiation that would still be present.

Source: NASA

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