What is Georges Lemaître?
{{Infobox scientist |honorific_prefix = [[The Reverend]] [[Monsignor]] |name = Georges Lemaître |image = Belgique - Louvain-la-Neuve - Place des Sciences - Georges Lemaître - 04.jpg |caption = Sculpture of Lemaître |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1894|7|17}} |birth_place = [[Charleroi]], [[Belgium]] |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1966|6|20|1894|7|17}} |death_place = [[Leuven]], Belgium |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[Belgium|Belgian]] |alma_mater = [[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|Catholic University of Leuven]]<br>[[St Edmund's College, Cambridge|St Edmund's House, Cambridge]]<br>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin]] (Leuven)<br />[[Arthur Eddington]] (Cambridge)<br />[[Harlow Shapley]] (MIT) |doctoral_students = Louis Philippe Bouckaert, Rene van der Borght |known_for = [[Metric expansion of space|Theory of the expansion of the universe]]<br>[[Big Bang theory]]<br>[[Lemaître coordinates]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |signature = Georges Lemaitre signature.jpg |footnotes = |ethnicity = |field = [[Cosmology]]<br>[[Astrophysics]] [[Mathematics]] |work_institutions = [[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|Catholic University of Leuven]] |prizes = [[Francqui Prize]] <small>(1934)</small><br>[[Eddington Medal]] {{small|(1953)}} }} Monsignor '''Georges Lemaître''' (Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, 17 July 1894 &ndash; 20 June 1966) was a [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[priest]], [[astronomer]] , [[mathematician]] and professor of [[physics]] at the [[Catholic]] University of [[Leuven|Louvain]]. He was the first person to say the [[expansion of the universe|Universe is growing]]. Some people think it was [[Edwin Hubble]], but that is not correct.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.nature.com/news/201