Correspondence with Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman regarding the history of the Big Bang cosmology and the discovery of the cosmic microwave background, 1991-1995.

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Correspondence with Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman regarding the history of the Big Bang cosmology and the discovery of the cosmic microwave background, 1991-1995.

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Correspondence between Brush and Alpher and Herman in connection with Brush's articles on the history of Big Bang cosmology and the discovery of the cosmic microwave background, published in Scientific American and Perspectives on Science. Much of the correspondence relates to George Gamow's Big Bang model and Alpher and Herman's work on cosmic background radiation.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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