http://thefeldmanblog.com/2007/08/24/big-bang-pioneer-explodes-okay-ralph-alpher-actually-just-died/ Commentary & Journalistic Satire (And a bit of media advice to boot) Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:12:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://thefeldmanblog.com/2007/08/24/big-bang-pioneer-explodes-okay-ralph-alpher-actually-just-died/comment-page-1/#comment-3070 Dr. Victor S. Alpher Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:32:08 +0000 http://thefeldmanblog.com/2007/08/24/big-bang-pioneer-explodes-okay-ralph-alpher-actually-just-died/#comment-3070 Out with a whimper? Hardly. My Dad was prolific and productive his entire life. I don't have to prove that here--however, while working on the Big Bang theory at GWU night school he was a Physicist on contract to the Government, later at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, with GE R&D for 35 years, then retired for another career--1987 to 2004 at Union College. In his spare time he helped launch a fledgling PBS station (WMHT-TV, Albany-Schectady-Troy), worked with the Boy Scouts of America (an Eagle who was in one of FDR's honor guards), was on a local (1960) YMCA championship volleyball team, and a sharp ping-pong player. He was a genius who graduated high school at 15, worked to help support his family managing the Roosevelt High School Theatre, got a Gregg Stenography Certificate and while working for the Director of the Carnegie Institution in 1939 or so was hired on (in one day) as a Junior Physicist...he would not give up no matter what the obstacle. He did not invent dynamite, however. Out with a whimper? Hardly. My Dad was prolific and productive his entire life. I don’t have to prove that here–however, while working on the Big Bang theory at GWU night school he was a Physicist on contract to the Government, later at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, with GE R&D for 35 years, then retired for another career–1987 to 2004 at Union College. In his spare time he helped launch a fledgling PBS station (WMHT-TV, Albany-Schectady-Troy), worked with the Boy Scouts of America (an Eagle who was in one of FDR’s honor guards), was on a local (1960) YMCA championship volleyball team, and a sharp ping-pong player. He was a genius who graduated high school at 15, worked to help support his family managing the Roosevelt High School Theatre, got a Gregg Stenography Certificate and while working for the Director of the Carnegie Institution in 1939 or so was hired on (in one day) as a Junior Physicist…he would not give up no matter what the obstacle. He did not invent dynamite, however.

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