It's a shame more people don't know his name. He postulated that the primordial universe was hot (mostly energy/radiation), described how that radiation condens

It's a shame more people don't know his name. He postulated that the primordial universe was hot (mostly energy/radiation), described how that radiation condensed into matter, and gave us stellar nucleosynthesis - the science behind, "we're made of star stuff," in a paper attributed to Alpher, Bethe and Gamow. Who doesn't love a cosmologist with a sense of humor?