George Gamow
Noun
Meaning
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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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.
By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of alpha decay via tunneling.
As George Gamow wrote in his popular science book, One, Two, Three.
George Gamow established a group of scientists interested in the role of RNA as an intermediary between DNA as the genetic storage molecule in the nucleus of cells and the synthesis of proteins in the cytoplasm (the RNA Tie Club ).
One was Lemaître's Big Bang theory, advocated and developed by George Gamow.
The idea was introduced by David Hilbert in a 1924 lecture and was popularized through George Gamow 's 1947 book One Two Three..