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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...
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  • 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...
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    cosmology, the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper, or αβγ paper, was created by Ralph Alpher, then a physics PhD student, his advisor George Gamow, and Hans Bethe. The...
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  • describing these transitions was done between 1934 and 1936 by George Gamow and Edward Teller at George Washington University. β decay had been first described...
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  • Russian explorer George Gamow (1904–1968), Russian-born physicist and cosmologist Igor Gamow (1935–2021), American inventor, son of George Gamow Vitaly Gamov...
    864 bytes (127 words) - 00:06, 4 July 2023
  • The Gamow factor, Sommerfeld factor or Gamow–Sommerfeld factor, named after its discoverer George Gamow or after Arnold Sommerfeld, is a probability factor...
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  • Mr Tompkins (category George Gamow)
    character in a series of four popular science books by the physicist George Gamow. The books are structured as a series of dreams in which Mr Tompkins...
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    Russian-American physicist George Gamow. This is a worn and eroded feature, with a rim that has been battered and overlain by multiple impacts. Gamow V is attached...
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  • first noted by Marvin Stern and George Gamow, physicists who had offices on different floors of a multi-story building. Gamow, who had an office near the...
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  • One Two Three... Infinity (category George Gamow)
    Speculations of Science is a popular science book by theoretical physicist George Gamow, first published in 1947, but still (as of 2020[update]) available in...
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  • particles and elements as are understood today. The term was used by George Gamow, his student Ralph Alpher, and their associates in the late 1940s, having...
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    Rutherford in 1899, and by 1907 they were identified as He2+ ions. By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of alpha decay via tunneling. The alpha particle...
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    pressure. The Gamow bag was named after its inventor, Igor Gamow, son of George Gamow. Igor Gamow originally designed a predecessor to the Gamow bag called...
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    measurements. The formula represents the liquid-drop model proposed by George Gamow, which can account for most of the terms in the formula and gives rough...
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  • assault charges. Rustem Igor Gamow was the son of Soviet émigré physicists George Gamow and Lyubov Vokhmintseva "Rho" Gamow. Finishing high school at age...
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    blunder", with all references being traced back to a single person: George Gamow. (See Gamow (1956, 1970).) For example: "Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio...
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  • George Gamow, author of One Two Three... Infinity and the Mr Tompkins series. The lectures were established by Gamow's widow, Barbara Perkins Gamow,...
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    toward the idea of stellar nucleosynthesis. In 1928 George Gamow derived what is now called the Gamow factor, a quantum-mechanical formula yielding the...
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    the 1930s, the university was a major center for theoretical physics. George Gamow, a cosmotologist, produced the Big Bang theory at the university in the...
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    influenced by his pre-war theoretical studies of the Earth's core with George Gamow. The prospect of more-efficient nuclear weapons impressed Oppenheimer...
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