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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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  • 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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  • describing these transitions was done between 1934 and 1936 by George Gamow and Edward Teller at George Washington University. Beta decay had been first described...
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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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  • 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 explorer George Gamow (1904–1968), Russian-born physicist and cosmologist Igor Gamow (1935–2021), American inventor, son of George Gamow Vitaly Gamov...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    of the cosmological redshift—as his "biggest blunder" (according to George Gamow). It transpired that adding the cosmological constant to Einstein's equations...
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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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  • 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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    Boulder. In 1995 Cornell and Wieman gave the University of Colorado's George Gamow Memorial Lecture. For synthesizing the first Bose–Einstein condensate...
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    he and Vadim N. Gladyshev received the George Gamow Award, named for the Russian-speaking physicist George Gamow. Lipovestky is the author or co-author...
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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 cosmologist, produced the Big Bang theory at the university in the...
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    school level. As the Red Scare faded, in 1959 Weisskopf joined physicists George Gamow and Hans Bethe in supporting the return of exiled physicist Frank Oppenheimer...
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  • Diamond code may refer to: Diamond code (genetics), a (wrong) proposal by George Gamow how to denote DNA sequences Diamond code (coding theory), a self-complementing...
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    Herman, 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...
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    including Willem de Sitter, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, George McVittie, and George Gamow (who stressed that "from the physical point of view we must...
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    Edward Teller (category George Washington University faculty)
    befriended Russian physicists George Gamow and Lev Landau. Teller's lifelong friendship with a Czech physicist, George Placzek, was also very important...
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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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    eternal Universe. In 1948, theoreticians Ralph Alpher, Robert Herman, and George Gamow predicted a different form of "fossil radiation" based on the Big Bang...
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    in particular following the ideas of Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and George Gamow. The letters are the standard symbols for the speed of light (c), the...
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  • Unendliche", reprinted in (Hilbert 2013, p.730), and was popularized through George Gamow's 1947 book One Two Three... Infinity. Hilbert imagines a hypothetical...
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