Symposium “125th Anniversary of Georges Lemaître”

Bike route and EPS Historic Site Award honour Georges Lemaître, father of the Big Bang theory

On Thursday 23 May 2019, a new bike route dedicated to the Big Bang theory was festively opened. Furthermore, the Heilige-Geestcollege in Leuven, where Georges Lemaître lived and worked when he developed the Big Bang theory, will receive the prestigious Historic Site Award from the European Physical Society (EPS) and the Belgian Physical Society.

EPS Historic Site, Leuven, Belgium : Georges Lemaître, founder of the Big Bang theory

On 23 May 2019, the Belgian Physical Society, the European Physical Society, and the sister-universities UCLouvain and KU Leuven will celebrate the person and the work of Monsignor Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), who was a professor at the yet undivided University of Louvain, and the original founder of the theory of the Big Bang.