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For addition to CMBR page, to ensure balance. The below is historical fact. John Barton continues to remove this factual information, for reasons he has failed to articulate in any coherent or adult manner.

Predictions prior to the Big Bang interpretation

The background temperature of space was predicted by Charles Édouard Guillaume, Arthur Eddington, Erich Regener, Walther Nernst, Gerhard Herzberg, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, Max Born, and Anthony Peratt, based on a universe without expansion. These predictions were more accurate than Big Bang models. The earliest estimation of the background temperature of “space” known to us is that of Guillaume (1896). It was published in 1896, before Gamow’s birth (1904).

This Peer-reviewed paper documents the history of predictions.

These earlier predictions were made by supporters of alternative cosmological models, from steady-state to quasi-steady-state and plasma cosmology. Although they may still cited in support of these models, the predictions stand alone as a matter of historical fact, regardless.