Ralph Alpher

…of 1948 by American physicist Ralph Alpher and his dissertation supervisor, George Gamow, that changed the direction of research by putting nuclear physics into cosmology. As a joke, Gamow added the name of physicist Hans Bethe in order to preserve the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow sequence of (almost) Greek letters. In the aßγ…

…modified the theory, and he, Ralph Alpher, and Hans Bethe published this theory in a paper called “The Origin of Chemical Elements” (1948). This paper, attempting to explain the distribution of chemical elements throughout the universe, posits a primeval thermonuclear explosion, the big bang that began the universe. According to…