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George Gamow
AuthorBooks · Second hand1904-1968
George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics.
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About George Gamow
Birth
1904
Death
1968
First book
1947
Years writing
79
George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics.
George Gamow was a versatile Russian scientist who excelled in both nuclear physics and cosmology.
His famous Mr Tompkins series brought complex quantum physics concepts to the general public in an engaging way.
He is globally recognized for his work One, Two, Three... Infinity, a classic of popular science.
Throughout his prolific career, Gamow wrote over one hundred works on topics ranging from atoms to the origin of the universe.
His work was fundamental to the understanding of cosmic microwave background radiation and the origin of chemical elements.
