“Agnese in his interview for Discover Magazine,”
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Ralph Asher Alpher
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.
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science · American cosmologist (1921–2007) · astronomer · physicist · university teacher · astrophysicist · also Ralph Asher Alpher, Ralph Alpher, Alpher
Born 3 February 1921 · Died 12 August 2007 · Q142049
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2007· 1 entry
Died 2007-08-12.
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2005· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (2005).
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Alpher was awarded the National Medal of Science
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2004· 1 entry
Joined the emeritus faculty at Union and was emeritus director of Dudley
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2001· 1 entry
Genesis of the Big Bang (Oxford University Press)
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1999· 1 entry
“Agnese in a July 1999 article in Discover magazine.”
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1993· 1 entry
Won Henry Draper Medal (1993).
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1986· 1 entry
Was recognized with the Distinguished Alumnus Achievement Award of the George Washington University
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1980· 1 entry
Won John Price Wetherill Medal (1980).
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1978· 1 entry
To Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson and in 2006 to John Mather and George Smoot
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Magellanic Premium (1975).
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The Georges Vanderlinden Physics prize of the Belgian Academy of Sciences, as well as significant awards of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
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1964· 2 entries
By two physicists working for Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work in 1978
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Although in retrospect many other astronomers and radio astronomers probably observed it without recognizing the cosmological significance
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1955· 2 entries
Both Alpher and Herman applied for positions at Iowa, where van Allen was now department chair, however, the salaries in academia were simply too low by comparison with industrial pay
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Alpher moved to a position with the General Electric Company's Research and Development Center
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1948· 3 entries
In the Physical Review with three authors: Alpher, Hans Bethe and Gamow
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Dealt with a subject that came to be known as Big Bang nucleosynthesis
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About a theory of nucleosynthesis called neutron capture
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-02-03.
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