FlexGunship
Nov9-11, 02:29 PM
Accusations that a giant of astronomy, Edwin Hubble, quashed a Belgian cleric who beat him to making one of the greatest discoveries of modern times are unfounded, Nature said on Wednesday.
"This clearly ends speculation about who translated the paper and who deleted the paragraphs -- Georges Lemaitre did both himself," Livio said.
"Lemaitre was not at all obsessed with establishing priority for this original discovery. Given that Hubble's results had been published in 1929, Lemaitre saw no point in repeating his own more tentative earlier findings in 1931."
Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8qLyij72VAPtk1ffsMYYxshN0ZQ?docId=CNG.83836 e5f1645ca4f109734aee0b1e702.2c1
For anyone who was following this "controversy," is has been settled. I was torn over this issue, Hubble was brilliant and had never shown a shred of academic dishonesty, but Lemaitre's hypothesis was proposed 2 years before Hubble even speculated about an expanding universe.
Happy to hear that even Lamaitre considered Hubble's work to supersede his own; it makes both men better as a result.
"This clearly ends speculation about who translated the paper and who deleted the paragraphs -- Georges Lemaitre did both himself," Livio said.
"Lemaitre was not at all obsessed with establishing priority for this original discovery. Given that Hubble's results had been published in 1929, Lemaitre saw no point in repeating his own more tentative earlier findings in 1931."
Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8qLyij72VAPtk1ffsMYYxshN0ZQ?docId=CNG.83836 e5f1645ca4f109734aee0b1e702.2c1
For anyone who was following this "controversy," is has been settled. I was torn over this issue, Hubble was brilliant and had never shown a shred of academic dishonesty, but Lemaitre's hypothesis was proposed 2 years before Hubble even speculated about an expanding universe.
Happy to hear that even Lamaitre considered Hubble's work to supersede his own; it makes both men better as a result.