The Atom of the Universe: The Life and Work of Georges Lemaître is an exhaustive account of the cosmologist, mathematician, priest, and legendary faculty member at Belgium’s Université Catholique de Louvain.
Although Lemaître possessed an enduring religious faith, it was coupled to his sharp and clearly articulated sense that physical phenomena, including observations related to the origin of the universe, cannot test the validity of religious belief.
In this month's Physics Today, Robert Kirshner, the foundation's chief program officer for science, reviews author Dominique Lambert's book about Lemaître, a significant player in the formative years of relativistic cosmology.
Read the full review here.
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