# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-asher-alpher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:16:29.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-asher-alpher"
name: "Ralph Asher Alpher"
slug: "ralph-asher-alpher"
description: "Ralph Asher Alpher was an American cosmologist, who carried out pioneering work in the early 1950s on the Big Bang model, including Big Bang nucleosynthesis and predictions of the cosmic microwave background radiation."
tagline: "American cosmologist (1921–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph_Alpher_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1921-02-03"
deathDate: "2007-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump