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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #316.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.317
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It is widely believed that Andrew McKellar's 1941 measurement of 2.3 K as the temperature of interstellar space was unknown to George Gamow and his colleagues Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman. As well, Alpher and Herman's 1948-49 estimate of 5 K for the temperature of the Universe at the current epoch was thought to be unknown to McKellar and other astronomer-spectroscopists (see J. Bernstein's 1993 book, pp 64-81).
Several months prior to his death in 2008, Graham Odgers, whom I consider to be the Canadian father of the CFHT, was interviewed by me and E. Harvey Richardson. Odgers was present when Gamow visited the D.A.O. (Victoria, BC) in the summer of 1951 with colleagues from George Washington University. Gamow presented a seminar that day entitled "The Origin of the Atoms" and otherwise spent the day walking around the Observatory property with McKellar. According to Odgers, Gamow insisted that his colleagues allow him and McKellar to talk alone. Most likely, the main topic was what was previously thought they never did: read and discuss each other's papers. Curiously, McKellar had 9 years before he died in 1960 to collaborate with Gamow. Gamow had 17 years before he died in 1968 to collaborate with McKellar and/or to write a paper himself. Apparently, neither happened.
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