Gamow, Alpher, Bethe, "The Origin of the Chemical Elements". Published by American Physical Society, in The Physical Review, vol 73, (April 1) and found in the bound April-July 1948 volume. Bound in red cloth.
We offer the entire volume for the April 1-June 1 1948 period, containing not only the great Gamow paper but others as well, not the least of which is Dirac. This is the background paper for the Big Bang: the great Alpher/Bethe/Gamow paper and all-time insider-bad-joke, coming in the 1 April 1948 issue of the Physical Review. The letter to the editor which announced Gamow's (et alia) theory on background radiation and the formulation of the "Big Bang". This is one of the great discoveries of the century--it didn't have the implications of the (troublesome and tiresome) James Watson's DNA "discovery", but it certainly had other enormous intellectual and philosophical (and scientific of course) ramifications. Alpher, Ralph; George Gamow [& Hans Bethe, for the fictionalized use of his name only, for the capital "Beta", and this ABC paper]. "The Origin of the Chemical Elements". In: Physical Review, 73, Pp 803-804 [1948]. Original green wrappers for all issues bound in. Pristine copies of all papers, all bound in a handsome and stury red cloth. Lovely. $2,000.00
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