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Ralph Asher Alpher

1921 - 2007

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Ralph Asher Alpher (February 3, 1921 – August 12, 2007) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ralph Asher Alpher is the 221st most popular physicist (up from 380th in 2019), the 844th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,310th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ralph Asher Alpher ranks 221 out of 851. Before him are Joseph Rotblat, Steven Weinberg, Wolfgang Paul, Robert H. Goddard, Melvin Schwartz, and Roy J. Glauber. After him are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, Andrew Huxley, Makoto Kobayashi, Ettore Majorana, and Alexander Prokhorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Ralph Asher Alpher ranks 36. Before him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Vasily Smyslov, Gianni Agnelli, Yoichiro Nambu, and Patricia Highsmith. After him are Lana Turner, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Amin al-Hafiz, Satyajit Ray, Deborah Kerr, and Jane Russell. Among people deceased in 2007, Ralph Asher Alpher ranks 24. Before him are Benazir Bhutto, Sidney Sheldon, Aden Adde, Albert Ellis, Paul Cohen, and Theodore Maiman. After him are Gian Carlo Menotti, István Sándorfi, Barry Nelson, Jerry Falwell, Deborah Kerr, and Jean-Pierre Cassel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ralph Asher Alpher ranks 844 out of 20,380. Before him are King Oliver (1881), John Dillinger (1903), Steve Perry (1949), Jason Robards (1922), Theodore Maiman (1927), and Linda Lovelace (1949). After him are Kathleen Kennedy (1953), Thomas Burke (1875), Kathy Bates (1948), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Willard Libby (1908), and Lawrence Kohlberg (1927).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ralph Asher Alpher ranks 46. Before him are James Cronin (1931), David Lee (1931), Steven Weinberg (1933), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Melvin Schwartz (1932), and Roy J. Glauber (1925). After him are Michio Kaku (1947), Frederick Reines (1918), Robert Hofstadter (1915), Arthur Ashkin (1922), David Bohm (1992), and Kenneth G. Wilson (1936).

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