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    Gamow is a large lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located in the northern hemisphere, to the southeast of the walled plain Schwarzschild...
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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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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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    Drude–Sommerfeld model Gamow–Sommerfeld factor Grimm–Sommerfeld rule Orr–Sommerfeld equation Rayleigh–Sommerfeld diffraction theory Sommerfeld crater 32809 Sommerfeld...
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    far side. The nearest craters of note are Seares to the northeast, and Gamow to the southeast. It was named after German physicist and astronomer Karl...
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    Oberth is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies in the high northern latitudes, to the southeast of the crater Gamow. To the east of Oberth is...
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    of Gamow. To the northwest of Schjellerup is the crater Seares and to the south-southeast lies Avogadro. This is a reasonably well-preserved crater that...
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    Notable craters in the lunar north polar region (between 60° North latitude and the North pole) include: Avogadro, Bel'kovich, Brianchon, Emden, Gamow, Goldschmidt...
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    Alpher Copernicus de Sitter Dicke Ehlers Einstein Ellis Friedmann Galileo Gamow Guth Hawking Hubble Huygens Kepler Lemaître Mather Newton Penrose Penzias...
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    Friedmann's interests included hydrodynamics and meteorology. Physicists George Gamow, Vladimir Fock, and Lev Vasilievich Keller were among his students. In 1911...
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    in a correction they prepared for a paper by Alpher's PhD advisor George Gamow. Alpher and Herman were able to estimate the temperature of the cosmic microwave...
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    George Gamow cited Flammarion as having had a significant influence on his childhood interest in science. Named after him Flammarion (lunar crater) Flammarion...
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  • observational biases. The term "comparative planetology" was coined by George Gamow, who reasoned that to fully understand our own planet, we must study others...
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    began to take classes with Francis Heyden, who recommended her to George Gamow of the neighboring George Washington University, her eventual doctoral advisor...
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    deuterons they found the results agreed closely with the predictions of George Gamow, but when higher energies and heavier nuclei were involved, the results...
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    satellites around Uranus George Gamow, theoretical physicist and cosmologist, discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and Gamow factor in stellar nucleosynthesis...
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  • 12447 12448 Mr. Tompkins 1996 XW18 Mr. Tompkins, character from George Gamow's books † MPC · 12448 12456 Genichiaraki 1997 AC1 Genichi Araki (born 1954)...
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    of the American Philosophical Society in 1929. Asteroid 2069 Hubble; The crater Hubble on the Moon; Orbiting Hubble Space Telescope; Edwin P. Hubble Planetarium...
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    established by science was resented by several physicists, notably by George Gamow and even George Lemaitre, a member of the Pontifical Academy. Livio, Mario...
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    of Venus, the four largest satellites of Jupiter, Saturn's rings, lunar craters and sunspots. He also built an early microscope. Galileo's championing...
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    Solar System is moving at around 370 km/s in a direction between Leo and Crater, this decreases 1 + z {\displaystyle 1+z} for distant objects in that direction...
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  • astronomer since 2000 and an educator to thousands. JPL · 8815 8816 Gamow 1984 YN1 George Gamow (1904–1968), a Soviet-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist...
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    Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society (1934) The crater De Sitter on the Moon Asteroid 1686 De Sitter De Sitter universe De Sitter...
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    (5): 483–502. Bibcode:1923PhRv...21..483C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.21.483. Gamow 1966, pp. 17–23. "The Compton wavelength of the electron". University of...
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  • Productions) 12448 Mr. Tompkins (Mr. Tompkins, hero of science books by George Gamow) 12796 Kamenrider (Kamen Rider, Japanese hero created by Shotaro Ishinomori)...
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    considered the liquid-drop model of the nucleus that had been proposed by George Gamow: perhaps it was possible for a drop to become elongated and then divide...
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    several educational institutions, an asteroid, and both a lunar and a Martian crater. The Kepler space telescope observed 530,506 stars and detected 2,778 confirmed...
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  • originally proposed by Georges Lemaître in 1931 and later advanced by George Gamow, which suggested that the universe expanded from an extremely dense and...
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