2018
DOI: 10.3390/galaxies6040132
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The Discovery of the Expansion of the Universe

Abstract: Alexander Friedmann, Carl Wilhelm Wirtz, Vesto Slipher, Knut E. Lundmark, Willem de Sitter, Georges H. Lemaître, and Edwin Hubble all contributed to the discovery of the expansion of the universe. If only two persons are to be ranked as the most important ones for the general acceptance of the expansion of the universe, the historical evidence points at Lemaître and Hubble, and the proper answer to the question, “Who discovered the expansion of the universe?”, is Georges H. Lemaître.

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“…Soon, after that George Lemaitre (see, Fig. 3) considered a similar problem to earlier Friedmann's considerations and derived the redshift-distance relation which is called now as the Hubble law [7,8] which was found based on observational data [9] using redshifts for selected galaxies evaluated by Slipher [10] (interesting discussions of historical aspects of these discoveries are given in [11][12][13][14]). Five years ago at the XXX General Assembly of the the International Astronomical Union in was proposed to call the expansion of the Universe as the Hubble -Lemaitre law (instead of the Hubble law) [15].…”
Section: Early Cosmological Studiesmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Soon, after that George Lemaitre (see, Fig. 3) considered a similar problem to earlier Friedmann's considerations and derived the redshift-distance relation which is called now as the Hubble law [7,8] which was found based on observational data [9] using redshifts for selected galaxies evaluated by Slipher [10] (interesting discussions of historical aspects of these discoveries are given in [11][12][13][14]). Five years ago at the XXX General Assembly of the the International Astronomical Union in was proposed to call the expansion of the Universe as the Hubble -Lemaitre law (instead of the Hubble law) [15].…”
Section: Early Cosmological Studiesmentioning
confidence: 92%