Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, a physicist whose doctoral dissertation provided a feasible formula for the scientific idea of the big bang but whose work was forgotten until after other scientists won ...

The Big Bang Theory explains how the universe began with an infinitely hot and dense single point that ... It was first predicted by Ralph Alpher and other scientists in 1948 but was found only by ...

Ralph Alpher, the "forgotten father of the Big Bang" whose calculations provided the theoretical underpinning of the theory but were ignored when it came time to pass out Nobel Prizes, died Sunday ...

Ralph Alpher, a 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 ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Ralph Alpher, a physicist whose pioneering work on the underpinnings of the "Big Bang" theory went unheralded for years while others won a Nobel Prize, has died. He was 86.

But astronomers, skeptical of the big-bang theory in general, did not believe it could be measured and would not pursue it. Stymied by the lack of enthusiasm, Alpher left Johns Hopkins in 1955 to ...

Ralph Alpher, the “forgotten father of the big bang” whose calculations provided the theoretical underpinning of the theory but were ignored when it came time to pass out Nobel Prizes, died ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — Ralph Alpher, a physicist whose pioneering work on the underpinnings of the "Big Bang" theory went unheralded for years while others won a Nobel Prize, died Aug. 12 in ...

Ralph Alpher, now 83, lives a quiet life in upstate New York. ... Furthermore, the Big Bang theory implied that there should be 10 atoms of hydrogen for every one atom of helium.

Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, a physicist whose doctoral dissertation provided a feasible formula for the scientific idea of the big bang but whose work was forgotten until after other scientists won ...