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George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model and the first mathematical model of the atomic nucleus, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis (which he collectively called nucleocosmogenesis), and molecular genetics.
In his middle and late career, Gamow directed much of his attention to teaching and wrote popular books on science, including One Two Three... Infinity and the Mr Tompkins series of books (1939–1967). Some of his books remain in print more than a half-century after their original publication.
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GeorgeGamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American...
describing these transitions was done between 1934 and 1936 by GeorgeGamow and Edward Teller at George Washington University. β decay had been first described...
The Gamow factor, Sommerfeld factor or Gamow–Sommerfeld factor, named after its discoverer GeorgeGamow or after Arnold Sommerfeld, is a probability factor...
Gamow may refer to: Gamów, a village in Poland Gamow (crater), a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon GAMOW, an acronym for the Godless Americans...
first noted by Marvin Stern and GeorgeGamow, physicists who had offices on different floors of a multi-story building. Gamow, who had an office near the...
character in a series of four popular science books by the physicist GeorgeGamow. The books are structured as a series of dreams in which Mr Tompkins...
Diamond code may refer to: Diamond code (genetics), a (wrong) proposal by GeorgeGamow how to denote DNA sequences Diamond code (coding theory), a self-complementing...
particles and elements as are understood today. The term was used by GeorgeGamow, his student Ralph Alpher, and their associates in the late 1940s, having...
assault charges. Rustem Igor Gamow was the son of Soviet émigré physicists GeorgeGamow and Lyubov Vokhmintseva "Rho" Gamow. Finishing high school at age...
Rutherford in 1899, and by 1907 they were identified as He2+ ions. By 1928, GeorgeGamow had solved the theory of alpha decay via tunneling. The alpha particle...
blunder", with all references being traced back to a single person: GeorgeGamow. (See Gamow (1956, 1970).) For example: "Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio...
influenced by his pre-war theoretical studies of the Earth's core with GeorgeGamow. The prospect of more-efficient nuclear weapons impressed Oppenheimer...
pressure. The Gamow bag was named after its inventor, Igor Gamow, son of GeorgeGamow. Igor Gamow originally designed a predecessor to the Gamow bag called...
Boulder. In 1995 Cornell and Wieman gave the University of Colorado's GeorgeGamow Memorial Lecture. For synthesizing the first Bose–Einstein condensate...
the 1930s, the university was a major center for theoretical physics. GeorgeGamow, a cosmotologist, produced the Big Bang theory at the university in the...
in particular following the ideas of Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and GeorgeGamow. The letters are the standard symbols for the speed of light (c), the...
of Sun and Earth the numbers reduce to Mtotal ~ 1, a ~ 1 and T ~ 1. GeorgeGamow discussed measurements of time such as the "light-mile" and "light-foot"...
toward the idea of stellar nucleosynthesis. In 1928 GeorgeGamow derived what is now called the Gamow factor, a quantum-mechanical formula yielding the...
Herman, in a correction they prepared for a paper by Alpher's PhD advisor GeorgeGamow. Alpher and Herman were able to estimate the temperature of the cosmic...
Russian explorer GeorgeGamow (1904–1968), Russian-born physicist and cosmologist Igor Gamow (1935–2021), American inventor, son of GeorgeGamow Vitaly Gamov...
including Willem de Sitter, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, George McVittie, and GeorgeGamow (who stressed that "from the physical point of view we must...
take classes with Francis Heyden, who recommended her to GeorgeGamow of the neighboring George Washington University, her eventual doctoral advisor. Her...
befriended Russian physicists GeorgeGamow and Lev Landau. Teller's lifelong friendship with a Czech physicist, George Placzek, was also very important...
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