LC control no. | n 97065688 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Alpher, Ralph, 1921-2007 |
Birth date | 1921 |
Death date | 2007 |
Found in | Library 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) |