Alpher, Herman, and the CMB
In 1950, two young physicists estimated the cosmic microwave background's temperature — and nearly got it right.
Published:
August 27, 2007
| George Gamow's agile mind was not content to restrict itself to nuclear physics. In the 1940s, he and his colleagues, including Ralph Alpher, probed the possible conditions of an early universe that started from a hot soup of radiation and subatomic particles. |
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