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This book takes us from the early childhood to the last days of George Lemaîitre, the man behind the theory of the primeval atom, now better known as Big Bang theory. But who was George Lemaître? A clergyman, a genius astronomer, an audacious cosmologist, a computer enthusiast ahead of his time, a professor with his head in the clouds, a bon vivant mathematician and gourmand? Dominique Lambert's book...

Prof. Ryba’s book is a study of early years of John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), created in 1918, in the year when the reborn Polish Commonwealth was back on the map of Europe after 123 years of the invaders’ rule. Key actors and events of those early days are shown here against the backdrop of the universal struggle: the fight for the future shape of human culture which, in this case,...