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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.

   • Awards: Kalinga Prize (1956)

   • Doctoral advisor: Alexander Friedmann

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › George-GamowGeorge Gamow | Biography & Discoveries | Britannica

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   George Gamow (born March 4, 1904, Odessa, Russian Empire [now in Ukraine]—died August 19, 1968, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.) was a Russian-born American nuclear physicist and cosmologist who was one of the foremost advocates of the big-bang theory, according to which the universe was formed in a colossal explosion that took place billions of ...

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4. www.sciencenews.org › blog › context5 decades after his death, George Gamow’s contributions to ...

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   Aug 28, 2018 · Learn about the life and achievements of George Gamow, a Russian-born scientist who made important contributions to physics, biology and popular science. Discover his discoveries on quantum tunneling, nuclear physics, stellar evolution, the Big Bang and DNA.

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6. pubs.aip.org › physicstoday › OnlineGeorge Gamow | Physics Today | AIP Publishing

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   Mar 4, 2016 · George Gamow. 4 March 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.5.031167. On this day in 1904, physicist George Gamow was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Gamow helped bolster the Big Bang model before it was widely accepted.

7. www.physicsoftheuniverse.com › scientists_gamowGeorge Gamow - Important Scientists - Physics of the Universe

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   Learn about George Gamow, a Ukrainian-American scientist who made important contributions to quantum theory, nuclear physics, cosmology and biochemistry. Discover his discoveries of alpha decay, cosmic microwave background, hydrogen and helium abundance, and DNA structure.

8. www.nasonline.org › memoir-pdfs › gamow-georgeGeorge Gamow - National Academy of Sciences

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   Learn about the life and achievements of George Gamow, a pioneer of nuclear physics and cosmology. The memoir covers his early years in Odessa, his education and research in Leningrad, his travels and collaborations in Europe and America, and his later contributions to science and education.

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   Who was George Gamow?

   • On this day in 1904, physicist George Gamow was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Gamow helped bolster the Big Bang model before it was widely accepted. In 1948, Gamow and his PhD student Ralph Alpher published a paper explaining how the chemical elements could have formed minutes after the universe began.

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   What was Gamow's contribution to physics?

   • Gamow went on to apply quantum mechanics to a general theory of low-energy nuclear reactions, essentially founding that field of study. The significance of his work was apparent to Niels Bohr, who was to theoretical physics what Rutherford was to experimental physics.

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   Who is Gyorgy Antonovich Gamow?

   • George Gamow looking toward the future (Odessa, summer 1907) Gyorgy Antonovich Gamow was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1904. His love of science manifested itself early. Astronomy, for example, captivated him after his father gave him a small telescope for his 13th birthday.

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   Who was Gamow & Teller?

   • Gamow and Teller were both proponents of the expanding-universe theory that had been advanced by Friedmann, Edwin Hubble, and Georges LeMaître. Gamow, however, modified the theory, and he, Ralph Alpher, and Hans Bethe published this theory in a paper called “The Origin of Chemical Elements” (1948).

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    John Cockcroft and George Gamow (Cavendish Laboratory, 1931) In sum, Gamow had established himself as one of the leaders in the rapidly expanding field of nuclear physics before his 25th birthday. Many intellectuals fled Europe as communist and fascist oppression intensified during the 1930s.