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Alpher, Ralph, 1921-2007

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Personal name headingAlpher, Ralph, 1921-2007
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Birth date1921
Death date2007
Found inLibrary of Congress Manuscript Division for the Papers of G. and B. Gamow, 1915-75 (Ralph Alpher; correspondent; re. big bang cosmology; born in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3, 1921)
Genesis of the big bang, 2001: t.p. (Ralph A. Alpher)
New York times WWW site, Aug. 20, 2007 (in obituary published Aug. 18: Ralph Alpher; b. Ralph Asher Alpher, Washington; d. last Sunday [Aug. 12, 2007], Austin, Tex., aged 86; physicist whose early calculations and theoretical predictions supported the Big Bang concept for the origin of the universe, though his role was largely overlooked as later discoveries proved him right)