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TIL about Georges Lemaître, a Catholic priest and mathematician, called the father of the Big Bang. Praised in his time for originating the theories of an expanding universe, the Big Bang Theory, Hubble's Law, and Hubble's Constant, he was modest and eschewed taking credit for his work.

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