Ralph Asher Alpher - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	03-February-1921
Place of Birth	Washington, D.C. (United States of America, United States, with Territories, Contiguous United States, Area code 202)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Scientist
Ralph Asher Alpher was an American cosmologist.

Awards by Ralph Asher Alpher

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ralph Asher Alpher.

2005

National Medal of Science for Physical Science	(For his unprecedented work in the areas of nucleosynthesis, for the prediction that universe expansion leaves behind background radiation, and for providing the model for the Big Bang theory.)

1993

Henry Draper Medal	(For their insight and skill in developing a physical model of the evolution of the universe and in predicting the existence of a microwave background radiation years before this radiation was serendipitously discovered; through this work they were participants in one of the major intellectual achievements of the twentieth century.)

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