The History of General Relativity

Father George Lemator was a Belgian Jesuit priest. He studied in England under Sir Arthur Eddington and traveled to the United States for further studies. In 1925, he became ill with typhoid, just a month after conducting a record-breaking balloon ascent at an altitude of 4.6 miles. So, Friedman didn't live to develop the theory. The breakout would thus come through another channel, Father George Lemator.