The removal of the crucial phrases, and the misplaced attribution of the major discovery, was the sole responsibility of … Georges Lemaître himself. In a handwritten letter to the editor, he points out that Hubble’s data was superior to what was available to himself, and that therefore there was no reason to refer to less precise data that had now been superseded. In other words, Lemaître was uninterested in taking the credit for the discovery. What mattered to him was not personal recognition but establishing the truth.
