Ralph Asher Alpher (February 3, 1921 – August 12, 2007) was an American cosmologist, who carried out pioneering work in the early 1950s on the Big Bang...

In physical cosmology, the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper, or αβγ paper, was created by Ralph Alpher, then a physics PhD student, his advisor George Gamow,...

Gamow, his student Ralph Alpher, and their associates in the late 1940s, having resuscitated it from Middle English after Alpher found it in Webster's...

February 13, 1997) was an American astronomer, best known for his work with Ralph Alpher in 1948–50, on estimating the temperature of cosmic microwave background...

estimates a temperature of 50 K. 1948: Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman re-estimate Gamow's estimate at 5 K. 1949: Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman re-re-estimate...

graduate student Ralph Alpher the task of solving the equations numerically. These results of Gamow and Alpher appeared in 1948 as the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper...

developed by George Gamow, who introduced BBN and whose associates, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, predicted the CMB. Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined...

predicted in 1948 by Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, in a correction they prepared for a paper by Alpher's PhD advisor George Gamow. Alpher and Herman were...

In the late 1940s, George Gamow's assistant cosmological researcher Ralph Alpher, proposed the name ylem for the primordial substance that existed between...

estimate an intergalactic temperature of 2.8 K in 1933. American physicists Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman predicted 5 K for the temperature of space in 1948...

another man.: 107  The name of the story is likely derived from that of Ralph Alpher, who himself was convinced of the connection. The ancient computer in...

and educator Horatio Allen (1802–1889), railroad engineer and inventor Ralph Alpher (1921–2007), cosmologist, won National Medal of Science for seminal work...

W. Cronin, Val Fitch 1978 William Klemperer 1979 Elias Burstein 1980 Ralph Alpher, Robert Herman 1981 Frank F. Fang, Alan B. Fowler, Webster E. Howard...

nucleosynthesis began with the calculations of Ralph Alpher in the 1940s. Alpher published the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper that outlined the theory of light-element...

Essential Theatre Prize in 2000 and 2004. Background, about physicist Ralph Alpher, was published by Isotope: A Literary Journal of Nature and Science Writing...

constant may be small because it is decreasing slowly with time. 1948 – Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe ("in absentia"), and George Gamow examine element synthesis...

in 2000. Researchers at GE Global Research include:[citation needed] Ralph Alpher, cosmologist William David Coolidge, physicist Ivar Giaever, Nobel Laureate...

over the award for a serendipitous discovery since it did not include Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, who predicted the cosmic microwave background radiation...

helped establish the Big Bang theory, the scientists Robert Herman and Ralph Alpher had also worked on that field. In quantum mechanics Jewish role was significant...

Humanist Association. Ralph Alpher: American cosmologist. He is famous for the seminal paper on Big Bang nucleosynthesis called the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper...

formulation of the Big Bang theory by Georges Lemaître. George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and Robert Herman had calculated that there should be evidence for a...

Steady State theory of Hoyle, Gold and Bondi, and the big bang theory of Ralph Alpher, George Gamow, and Robert Dicke with a small number of supporters of...

locomotive engine 2007: First 24 cylinder internal combustion engine Ralph Alpher, cosmologist LeRoy Apker, solid-state physicist George C. Baldwin, theoretical...

stars Alpher, Bethe, Gamow, Dalton, Ephron, and Zwicky. The first three are an allusion to the famous Alpha-Beta-Gamma paper written in 1948 by Ralph Alpher...

model for the continued gravitational contraction of a star. 1948 – Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman predict the cosmic microwave background. 1949 – Cornelius...

work in the field of sustainable built environment and climate actions Ralph Alpher, "father of the Big Bang theory" Anousheh Ansari (M.S., 1992), chairwoman...

asterisk (*). Ralph Alpher (agnostic/humanist) – American cosmologist; known for the seminal paper on Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper...

in 1948 by George Gamow and Ralph Alpher, and by Alpher and Robert Herman as due to the hot Big Bang model. Moreover, Alpher and Herman were able to estimate...

including Georges Lemaître, who first theorised that there was a big bang, Ralph Alpher, who stated that the light from this should be detectable, and Cecilia...

as Alfvén waves Ralph Alpher (1921–2007): American cosmologist; known for the seminal paper on Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper...