COSMOLOGY Microview 1946-1948

Some Landmark Papers Touching on the Physical And Philosophical Aspect of the Expanding Universe 1946-1991:

1946.  Expanding Universe and the Origin of Elements.
G. Gamow, Phys. Rev. 70 (1946) 572-573.

1948.  On the Relative Abundance of the Elements.
Ralph A. Alpher, Robert C. Herman, Phys. Rev. 74 (1948) 1737-1742.

1948.  A Neutron-Capture Theory of the Formation and Relative Abundance of the Elements.
Ralph A. Alpher, Phys. Rev. 74 (1948) 1577-1589.

1949.  Thermonuclear Reactions in the Expanding Universe.
R. A. Alpher, R. Herman, G. A. Gamow, Phys. Rev. 74 (1948) 1198-1199. Erratum: Phys. Rev. 75 (1949) 701.

1948.  The Origin of Chemical Elements.
R. A. Alpher, H. Bethe, G. Gamow, Phys. Rev. 73 (1948) 803-804. 

1948.  The Origin of Chemical Elements.
R. A. Alpher, H. Bethe, G. Gamow, Phys. Rev. 73 (1948) 803-804.

1949.  Remarks on the Evolution of the Expanding Universe.
Ralph A. Alpher, Robert C. Herman, Phys. Rev. 75 (1949) 1089-1095.

1951.  Neutron-Capture Theory of Element Formation in an Expanding Universe.
Ralph A. Alpher, Robert C. Herman, Phys. Rev. 84 (1951) 60-68.

1966.  Primordial Helium Abundance and the Primordial Fireball. II.
Peebles, P. J. E., Astrophys. J. 146 (1966) 542.   AND Primeval Helium Abundance and the Primeval Fireball.
Peebles, P. J. E., Phys. Rev. Lett. 16 (1966) 410-413.

1967.  On the Synthesis of elements at very high temperatures.
Wagoner, Robert V., Fowler, William A., Hoyle, Fred, Astrophys. J. 148 (1967) 3-49.

1973.    On the Origin of Light Elements.
Reeves, H., Audouze, J., Fowler, W. A., Schramm, D. N., Astrophys. J. 179 (1973) 909-930.

1976.  The origin of deuterium.
Epstein, R. I., Lattimer, J. M., Schramm, D. N., Nature 263 (1976) 198-202.

1977.  Cosmological limits to the number of massive leptons.
Steigman, G., Schramm, D. N., Gunn, J. E., Phys. Lett. B66 (1977) 202-204.

1982.  Primordial nucleosynthesis including radiative, coulomb, and finite temperature corrections to weak rates
.Dicus, Duane A. et al., Phys. Rev. D26 (1982) 2694.

1989.  Cosmological Helium production simplified. 
Bernstein, Jeremy, Brown, Lowell S., Feinberg, G., Rev. Mod. Phys. 61 (1989) 25. 

1991.  Primordial nucleosynthesis without a computer.
Esmailzadeh, Rahim, Starkman, Glenn D., Dimopoulos, Savas, Astrophys. J. 378 (1991) 504-518.