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Big Bang

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1956–1981Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1956

Edwin Powell Hubble1956

Science / Astronomy

Cosmological redshift is now conventionally understood to be a consequence of the expansion of space; a feature of Big Bang cosmology

1966

George Gamow1966

University of Colorado · Science / Astronomy

Gamow promotes the microwave background discovery as strong support for the hot Big Bang model

1981

Alan Guth1981

Science / Astronomy

Alan Guth proposes early period of inflation of universe, Guth proposes that the a number of difficulties with the standard model of the expanding universe could be explained by an enormous expansion very early in the history of the universe

Names involved

Alan GuthEdwin Powell HubbleGeorge Gamow

Provenance

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