Labels:text | font | paper | document | black and white OCR: 1894 Born on July 17 in Charleroi, Belgium. 1912 He trains as a civil engineer at the University of Leuven, Belgium. 1914-18 Serves as an artillery officer in the Belgian army during World War I and wins the Croix de Guerre, the highest award for bravery. 1920 Awarded a PhD in civil engineering. 1923 Ordained as a priest. 1923-24 Studies solar physics at Cambridge University, where he is influenced by Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), Professor of Astronomy and Director of the University of Cambridge Observatory. 1924-26 Works in America at Harvard University, Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he comes into contact with the work of the American astronomers Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) and Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) on the idea of an expanding universe. 1927 Appoin ...
