George Gamow (March 4, 1904 - August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, nucleocosmogenesis and genetics. Wikipedia
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George Gamow (1904-1968) " Possible Mathematical Relation Between Deoxyribonucleic Acid and Proteins ," Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 1954. www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr115.html
Gamow attended Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) University, where he studied briefly with A.A. Friedmann, a mathematician and cosmologist who suggested that the universe should be expanding. www.phy.bg.ac.yu/web_projects/giants/gamow.html
... 2006-7 - Top - Full index George Gamow Professor of Physics at the GWU from 1934 to 1956 Gamow (1904-1968) is renowned for developing the "Big Bang Theory" of the universe (1948), ... www.dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0001387.htm
In his school days Gamow became very much interested in astronomy, examining the starry sky through a little telescope, his father's present on the thirteenth birthday of his son. www.colorado.edu/physics/Web/Gamow/life.html
Gamow was born in Russia in 1904 (well, Odessa 's in the Ukraine now, but it was Russian Empire then). He studied at Leningrad , Copenhagen , and Cambridge , and after a couple shorter-term positions ended up as a professor at George Washington Universit everything2.com/index.pl?node=George%20Gamow
