Ralph Asher Alpher

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Ralph Asher Alpher

Physics

#553

World Rank

#946

Historical Rank

#268

USA Rank

Cosmology

#46

World Rank

#50

Historical Rank

#22

USA Rank

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Ralph Asher Alpher's Degrees

PhD Physics George Washington University
Bachelors Physics George Washington University

Why Is Ralph Asher Alpher Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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Ralph Asher Alpher's Published Works

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Optical Refractivity of High‐Temperature Gases. II. Effects Resulting from Ionization of Monatomic Gases (1959) (173)
Theory of the Origin and Relative Abundance Distribution of the Elements (1950) (147)
Remarks on the Evolution of the Expanding Universe (1949) (129)
HEAT TRANSFER IN MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC FLOW BETWEEN PARALLEL PLATES (1961) (129)
Physical Conditions in the Initial Stages of the Expanding Universe (1953) (128)
My world line; an informal autobiography (1970) (111)
Flow in shock tubes with area change at the diaphragm section (1958) (84)
On the Relative Abundance of the Elements (1948) (65)
Magnetic Dispersion and Attenuation of Sound in Conducting Fluids and Solids (1954) (64)
130. The Origin of Chemical Elements (1979) (54)
Thermonuclear Reactions in the Expanding Universe (1948) (47)
A Neutron-Capture Theory of the Formation and Relative Abundance of the Elements (1948) (45)
Theoretical geomagnetic effects in cosmic radiation (1950) (44)
Reflections on Early Work on ‘Big Bang’ Cosmology (1988) (38)
Some Studies of Free-Surface Mercury Magnetohydrodynamics (1960) (30)
Comments on an Experiment Concerning Einstein’s Light Velocity Postulate (1963) (29)
THE PRIMEVAL LEAD ISOTOPIC ABUNDANCES AND THE AGE OF THE EARTH'S CRUST (1951) (29)
Thermal cosmic radiation and the formation of protogalaxies. (1967) (28)
The Origin and Abundance Distribution of the Elements (1953) (28)
Interferometric Measurement of Electron Concentrations in Plasmas (1958) (20)
Visible Continuum Emission from Shocked Noble Gases (1964) (16)
Introduction to theoretical gas dynamics (1947) (16)
NEUTRON-CAPTURE THEORY OF ELEMENT FORMATION IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE (1951) (14)
On Nucleon-Antinucleon Symmetry in Cosmology (1958) (13)
The Saha equation and the adiabatic exponent in shock wave calculations (1957) (13)
Calculation of Shock Hugoniots and Related Quantities for Nitrogen and Oxygen (1958) (10)
A possible relation between cosmological quantities and the characteristics of elementary particles. (1968) (10)
Large numbers, cosmology, and Gamow. (1973) (10)
Genesis of the Big Bang (2001) (9)
Early work on 'big-bang' cosmology and the cosmic blackbody radiation (1990) (8)
Laboratory Test of the Finlay-Freundlich Red Shift Hypothesis (1962) (6)
Physics Manpower: Present and Future. (1980) (5)
Erratum: Thermonuclear Reactions in the Expanding Universe (1949) (4)
Tea Leaves, Baer's Law, and Albert Einstein (1960) (3)
Normal Reflection of Shock Waves from Moving Boundaries (1954) (3)
More on varying G (1981) (3)
The creation of free energy (1991) (3)
Experiments in magneto‐fluid dynamics (1960) (2)
Calculation of Cosmological Parameters and Their Approximations in the Standard Big Bang Model (1995) (2)
Measurements of Base Pressure on a Missile in Free Flight (1947) (2)
Reflections on "Big Bang" Cosmology (1972) (2)
Technology Assessment — Its Role in Corporate Planning (1973) (2)
Gamow Dies; Nuclear and Astrophysicist Was Popular Writer (1968) (1)
Cosmological Constant and Perihelion Precession (1967) (1)
Henry Hurwitz, Jr (1993) (1)
Reply to Comments by C. J. Chen (1965) (0)
Large numbers in cosmology. (1988) (0)
Obituary: Robert L. Golden, 1940-1995 (1997) (0)
Some Good ?'s About ? and Landau (1990) (0)
Molecular Flow of Gases, by G. N. PATTERSON. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1956. 217 pp. $7.50 or 60s. (1957) (0)
Radioactive Waste Disposal (1982) (0)
Cosmochemistry in the Early Universe (1997) (0)
a ? ?. How About You? (1988) (0)
Memories of Gamow (1972) (0)
Dudley Observatory, Schenectady, New York 12308. Report for the period Oct 1993 - Oct 1994. (1991) (0)
Panel Discussion and Reminiscences of George Gamow (1997) (0)
Celebration of gamow's birth: 90 years later (1996) (0)
131. The Evolution and Physics of the Expanding Universe (1979) (0)

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