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Name: George Gamow
Birth Date: March 4, 1904
Death Date: 1968
Place of Birth: Odessa, Russia
Nationality: Russian, American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist, scientist

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Biography of George Gamow
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The Russian-American physicist George Gamow (1904-1968) made important contributions to nuclear physics. He also did significant work in the fields of astrophysics and biology and wrote books popularizing science. George Gamow was born in Odessa,...
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Biography of George Gamow
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Born on March 4, 1904, at Odessa in czarist Russia, George Gamow became interested in astronomy after his father gave him a telescope on his thirteenth birthday. Gamow went to the University of Leningrad, obtaining a Ph.D. in 1928. After working at...
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Biography of George Gamow
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George Gamow was a celebrated physicist best known for his work dealing with the origins of the universe. Gamow also made important contributions to the unraveling of the genetic code in molecular biology. In addition to his research, Gamow was a great...


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George Gamow [pronounced "GAM-off"] ( 1904-03-04 – 1968-08-19 ) was a Ukrainian born physicist and cosmologist. He developed the Big Bang theory of cosmology, using it to predict the existence of Cosmic background radiation , and his insight that DNA...


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1904-1968 Russian-born American physicist who made important contributions to cosmology, nuclear physics, and molecular biology. Gamow was codeveloper of the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow "big bang" theory of the universe's origin, which...
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George Gamow (pronounced as IPA: [ˈɡamof]) (March 4, 1904 – August 19, 1968) , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered alpha decay via...


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The Independent - London
Monday Book: A quantum leap for the fun of physics The New World of Mr Tompkins by George Gamow and Russell Stannard, (Cambridge University Press, pounds 14.95)
10/11/1999: 582 words, approx. 2 pages
THE BEST just got better. Two of the most influential popular science books ever were Mr Tompkins in Wonderland (1940) and Mr Tompkins Explores the Atom (1945), written by the pioneering quantum physicist and cosmologist George Gamow. They introduced generations of young people to...
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The Boston Globe
In `genes, Girls, And Gamow,' James D. Watson Looks At Love And Dna
02/27/2002: 2,267 words, approx. 8 pages
[A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.] COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. - Offices of the great and famous have a dismaying tendency to look alike. The names on the plaques vary. The photographs bear different inscriptions. But always, along with the Danish...
 


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