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Category: Hubble

history of science · Hubble · Lemaître

From the Archives of Louvain

July 13, 2011 John FarrellLeave a comment

Some new findings in the Lemaître/Hubble debate. At my Forbes blog.

cosmology · history of science · Hubble · Lemaître

Astronomers Behaving Badly

June 15, 2011 John FarrellLeave a comment

In my 2005 biography of Georges Lemaître, I argued that Hubble’s Law should have been called Lemaître’s Law, as he derived the linear velocity-distance relation between galaxies two years before Hubble did. (That bastard.) Turns out, there was more going on behind the scenes at the time than people realized.

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