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Subject: Re: Big-Bang George Lemaitre and his studies
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Am 04.05.2018 um 08:48 schrieb Thomas Heger:
>>
>> After the war ended in 1918 he went back to Louvin and got a Doctorate 
>> in 1920.
>> http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Lemaitre.html
>>


quote from above:

" However in 1914, while he was still an undergraduate, World War I 
broke out. He volunteered and served as an artillery officer in the 
Belgian army. He was decorated for bravery, receiving the Military 
Cross, but the dreadful carnage he had seen on the battlefields troubled 
him deeply and changed his life. After the war ended he returned to his 
university studies but his interests now moved away from engineering and 
towards mathematics. He graduated with the degree of Docteur en Sciences 
in mathematics in 1920 after submitting his thesis l'Approximation des 
fonctions de plusieurs variables réelles Ⓣ written under guidance from 
de la Vallée Poussin."

> The question is: TIME !!!
> 
> Since before WWI he studied engineering in Louvin (=Leuven) and after 
> the war the university was still closed until January 1919.
> 
> So his entire studies in mathematics and physics could only have 
> happened in the 10 1/2 remaining month of 1919 - if we reserve a few 
> month in 1920, that he certainly needed to write his PhD thesis.
> 

Since the university of Leuven reopened after WWI in January 1919, he 
could not have started with physics and mathematics earlier than that date.
One reason: he was a soldier in WWI and
second reason: the university was burnt down and subsequently closed

So he had only studied less than a year from start to finish and 
mastered both: mathematics and physics.

To make his career even more astonishing: he left with a doctorate of 
science (~> PhD) in 1920.

These stations of his life require lightning fast learning.

But actually I have never heard about anything similar anywhere else.



TH