Primordial Nucleosynthesis

Thermal History of the Universe: Review of Statistical Mechanics

• distribution functions
• Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics
• limiting cases: non- and ultra-relativistic particles

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Early History

• Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow (1948)
• Hayashi (1950)
• Alpher, Follin, and Hermann (1953)