Source:On the Relative Abundance of the Elements (Scholarly article)
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| On the Relative Abundance of the Elements (Scholarly article) | |
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| Instance of | scholarly article |
| Author(s) | Ralph Asher Alpher, Robert Herman |
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| Publication date | 1948 |
| Volume | 74 |
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| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRev.74.1737 |
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| Access | https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.74.1737 |
Overview
1948 paper by Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman in which they estimated that the residual radiation left over from the hot early universe would fill the present universe at a temperature of a few kelvin, a prediction of what is now called the cosmic microwave background