George Gamow, sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American...

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...

describing these transitions was done between 1934 and 1936 by George Gamow and Edward Teller at George Washington University. β decay had been first described...

The Gamow factor, Sommerfeld factor or Gamow–Sommerfeld factor, named after its discoverer George Gamow or after Arnold Sommerfeld, is a probability factor...

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...

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...

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...

university was a major center for theoretical physics. The cosmologist George Gamow produced critical work on the Big Bang theory at GW in the 1930s and...

blunder", with all references being traced back to a single person: George Gamow. (See Gamow (1956, 1970).) For example: "Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio...

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...

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...

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...

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...

George Gamow, author of One Two Three... Infinity and the Mr Tompkins series. The lectures were established by Gamow's widow, Barbara Perkins Gamow,...

Russian explorer George Gamow (1904–1968), Russian-born physicist and cosmologist Igor Gamow (1935–2021), American inventor, son of George Gamow Vitaly Gamov...

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...

influenced by his pre-war theoretical studies of the Earth's core with George Gamow. The prospect of more-efficient nuclear weapons impressed Oppenheimer...

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...

toward the idea of stellar nucleosynthesis. In 1928 George Gamow derived what is now called the Gamow factor, a quantum-mechanical formula yielding the...

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...

Herman re-re-estimate the temperature at 28 K. 1953 – George Gamow estimates 7 K. 1956 – George Gamow estimates 6 K. 1955 – Émile Le Roux of the Nançay Radio...

including Willem de Sitter, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, George McVittie, and George Gamow (who stressed that "from the physical point of view we must...

Boulder. In 1995 Cornell and Wieman gave the University of Colorado's George Gamow Memorial Lecture. For synthesizing the first Bose–Einstein condensate...

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...

befriended Russian physicists George Gamow and Lev Landau. Teller's lifelong friendship with a Czech physicist, George Placzek, was also very important...

Stephen G. Brush). 1946: George Gamow estimates a temperature of 50 K. 1948: Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman re-estimate Gamow's estimate at 5 K. 1949: Ralph...

established by science was resented by several physicists, notably by George Gamow and even George Lemaitre, a member of the Pontifical Academy. Livio, Mario (10...

that our universe is expanding. Einstein then abandoned Λ, remarking to George Gamow "that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder...

Colorado Boulder. The George Gamow and Barbara Gamow Papers, 1915-1975 are hosted at the Library of Congress. "George Gamow and Barbara Gamow Papers" (PDF)....

1931 monograph on the Constitution of Atomic Nuclei and Radioactivity, George Gamow, then at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, did not...