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My favorite related anecode: when Alpher and Gamow released a paper about big bang photosynthesis Gamow added Bethe to the paper to make the author list "Alpher

• gidorah 5y ago
  Bethe wasn't too happy as he was the junior and Gamow was pretty senior and unrelated, so Bethe didn't get the credit he deserved iirc.
  • adharmad 5y ago
    Alpher was the most junior of the three and Bethe was a big gun even at that time. Bethe went along with the joke when Gamow added his name to the paper. But the actual loser in the deal was Alpher because most scientists, upon reading the author's names simply assumed that Bethe and Gamow had come up with the main ideas.
    • gidorah 5y ago
      Oops. I guess I misremebered.