Gamow

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United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968)

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By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder. Stanislaw Ulam

A nucleus was not like a brittle solid that can be cleaved or broken; George Gamow had suggested early on, and Bohr had given good arguments that a nucleus was much more like a liquid drop. Source: Internet

By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of alpha decay via tunneling. Source: Internet

Furthermore, the uncertainty about the elevation above the earth's surface will result in an uncertainty in the rate of the clock," Gamow, G., The great physicists from Galileo to Einstein, Courier Dover, 1988, p. 260–261. Source: Internet

As George Gamow wrote in his popular science book, One, Two, Three. Source: Internet

Gamow, G., The great physicists from Galileo to Einstein, Courier Dover, 1988, p.260. Source: Internet

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