Ralph Alpher1948
Alpher predicts with Herman that the expanding universe should contain cooled remnant radiation
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Alpher predicts with Herman that the expanding universe should contain cooled remnant radiation
Herman predicts with Alpher that a relic radiation field should remain from the hot early universe
Alpher refines predictions for the relic radiation temperature expected from a hot early universe
Herman refines the predicted relic radiation temperature and keeps the observational test in view
Dicke revives interest in detecting relic radiation from a hot early universe
Dicke organises a Princeton group to search experimentally for cosmic microwave background radiation
Peebles calculates theoretical implications of a relic radiation background for hot Big Bang cosmology
Penzias detects unexplained microwave antenna noise that will be identified as cosmic background radiation
Roll works with Wilkinson on an experiment to search for relic microwave radiation
Wilkinson helps build a radiometer intended to detect the predicted microwave background
Wilson detects the same persistent microwave noise with the Holmdel horn antenna
Dicke interprets the microwave background detection as relic radiation from a hot dense early universe
Peebles coauthors the interpretation paper connecting the microwave background to Big Bang cosmology
Penzias publishes the measurement of excess antenna temperature from the cosmic microwave background
Roll coauthors the interpretation of the microwave background as a cosmological relic
Wilkinson coauthors the Princeton paper explaining the cosmic microwave background result
Wilson publishes the microwave excess with Penzias, providing decisive evidence for a hot early universe
Wilkinson develops increasingly sensitive measurements of the microwave background
Smoot begins observational work on microwave background anisotropy with airborne and balloon instruments
Weiss helps propose a satellite mission concept to measure the cosmic microwave background precisely
Smoot develops public and scientific interpretation of COBE anisotropies as seeds of cosmic structure
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