Correct Answer: (2) George Lamaitre
Solution:According to the Big Bang theory, the expansion of the observable universe began with the explosion of a single particle at a definite point in time. This startling idea first appeared in scientific form in 1931, in a paper by Georges Lemaître, Belgian a cosmologist and Catholic priest. The theory, accepted by nearly all astronomers today. was a radical departure from scientific orthodoxy in the 1930s.