Ralph Alpher
American cosmologist
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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. Wikipedia
Born: February 3, 1921, Washington, D.C.
Died: August 12, 2007 (age 86 years), Austin, TX
Education: The George Washington University and Theodore Roosevelt High School
Academic advisor: George Gamow