Ralph Alpher
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 17 years ago |
Date of birth | February 3,1921 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Washington |
D.C. | |
United States | |
Date of died | August 12,2007 |
Died | Austin |
Texas | |
United States | |
Books | Genesis of the big bang |
Fields | Cosmology |
Theoretical physics | |
Astrophysics | |
Job | Physicist |
Astronomer | |
Cosmologist | |
Awards | National Medal of Science for Physical Science |
Henry Draper Medal | |
Known for | Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
Education | George Washington University |
Theodore Roosevelt High School | |
Academic advisor | George Gamow |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 569765 |
Ralph Alpher Life story
Ralph Asher Alpher was an American cosmologist, who carried out pioneering work in the early 1950s on the Big Bang model, including Big Bang nucleosynthesis and predictions of the cosmic microwave background radiation.