After George Gamow first proposed the idea of a hot Big Bang in 1948, it took 15 years for the burgeoning cosmology community to recognize his contribution for what it was.
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Peebles, P.J.E. Cosmology’s early days. Nat Astron 3, 1055–1057 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0960-3
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