Historical place archive

Applied Physics Laboratory in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Applied Physics Laboratory in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

4 records1 event labels2 people1948–1950

Historical events in Applied Physics Laboratory

1948

1948
Cosmic Microwave Background
Ralph Alpher · Astronomy

Alpher predicts with Herman that the expanding universe should contain cooled remnant radiation

1948
Cosmic Microwave Background
Robert Herman · Astronomy

Herman predicts with Alpher that a relic radiation field should remain from the hot early universe

1950

1950
Cosmic Microwave Background
Ralph Alpher · Astronomy

Alpher refines predictions for the relic radiation temperature expected from a hot early universe

1950
Cosmic Microwave Background
Robert Herman · Astronomy

Herman refines the predicted relic radiation temperature and keeps the observational test in view

Provenance

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