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GAMOW1 suggested in a classical paper that the present element abundances (in particular the light elements H, D, He and Li) may have been formed during the first few minutes of the birth of the universe. This suggestion received further support after the 3 K background radiation, also implied in that paper and numerically predicted by Alpher and Herman2, was detected by Penzias and Wilson3. There are, however, still serious objections to a primordial origin for helium.
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CHURCHWELL, E., MEZGER, P. Underabundance of Ionized Helium in the Galactic Centre. Nature 242, 319–320 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242319a0
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