Dr. Alpher was awarded the 2005 National Medal of Science last month for his 1948 prediction that, if the universe started with a big bang, as others had hypothesized, it would explain the varying ...

It was the science establishment's last effort to make amends to a "forgotten father of the Big Bang" for the failure to recognize fully and earlier Alpher's role in the theory's foundations. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Big Bang Theory explains how the universe began with an infinitely hot and dense single point that inflated to form the ever-expanding cosmos we see today.

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 ...

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 ...

Ralph Alpher, now 83, lives a quiet life in upstate New York. Few of his neighbours realise that Alpher, despite the cryptic clue in his name, pioneered the theory that describes the start of the ...

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 ...