Image 1 Caption: Georges Lemaitre (1894--1966) circa 1933. See also St. Andrews: MacTutor: Georges Lemaitre (1894--1966).
Features:
Georges Lemaitre (1894--1966)
only published
cosmological models
with hyperspherical space.
Maybe he found them philosophically satisfying.
Maybe he be believed that
Friedmann equation models
could NOT apply everywhere for all time and
hyperspherical space naturally embodied
that view point.
Explicaton: