The first two letters in the August 2011 issue of PHYSICS TODAY (page 8 and page 8), on Georges Lemaître’s Hubble relationship and on the Coriolis effect, have more in common than being printed on the same page. Two scientists highlighted in the letters were Catholic priests. Lemaître was a Belgian priest and Giovanni Riccioli an Italian Jesuit.
The science described in the letters—the expansion and fate of the universe and Earth’s motion—bears on matters important in the history of science and religion, so it seems worthwhile to point out the other vocation of the two men.
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