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    Who was the first person to propose the Big Bang theory?

    Question #55470. Asked by rlaj. (Feb 25 05 12:30 PM)


    Stew54

    		Georges-Henri Lemaître in 1927, though he didn't call it that.

    Fred Hoyle, the astronomer, first used the expression in around 1950 or so, but he didn't subscribe to the theory and used what he considered to be a mocking turn of phrase.

    Feb 25 05, 12:34 PM
    rlaj

    		That's a Yay Stew!

    Feb 25 05, 1:12 PM
    Buck540

    		And that Georges guy was a priest...

    http://www.321books.co.uk/biography/lemaitre-georges.htm

    Feb 25 05, 10:49 PM

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