George Gamow, sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American... 40 KB (4,797 words) - 11:33, 29 March 2024 |
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... 312 bytes (73 words) - 15:45, 3 February 2016 |
Beta decay transition (redirect from Gamow–Teller transition) 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... 14 KB (2,078 words) - 11:36, 29 March 2024 |
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... 8 KB (938 words) - 11:34, 29 March 2024 |
The Gamow factor, Sommerfeld factor or Gamow–Sommerfeld factor, named after its discoverer George Gamow or after Arnold Sommerfeld, is a probability factor... 10 KB (2,133 words) - 11:35, 29 March 2024 |
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... 26 KB (3,901 words) - 04:58, 1 May 2024 |
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... 7 KB (904 words) - 18:41, 28 December 2023 |
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... 154 KB (13,403 words) - 13:04, 7 May 2024 |
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... 6 KB (699 words) - 11:33, 29 March 2024 |
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... 6 KB (723 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2023 |
George Gamow, author of One Two Three... Infinity and the Mr Tompkins series. The lectures were established by Gamow's widow, Barbara Perkins Gamow,... 12 KB (1,111 words) - 16:25, 10 April 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,718 words) - 23:50, 4 May 2024 |
Russian explorer George Gamow (1904–1968), Russian-born physicist and cosmologist Igor Gamow (1935–2021), American inventor, son of George Gamow Vitaly Gamov... 864 bytes (127 words) - 00:06, 4 July 2023 |
influenced by his pre-war theoretical studies of the Earth's core with George Gamow. The prospect of more-efficient nuclear weapons impressed Oppenheimer... 47 KB (5,731 words) - 13:30, 1 April 2024 |
Portable hyperbaric bag (redirect from Gamow Bag) 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... 3 KB (322 words) - 14:54, 30 June 2023 |
Stellar nucleosynthesis (redirect from Gamow peak) toward the idea of stellar nucleosynthesis. In 1928 George Gamow derived what is now called the Gamow factor, a quantum-mechanical formula yielding the... 37 KB (4,238 words) - 06:10, 8 April 2024 |
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... 313 bytes (70 words) - 00:39, 30 May 2020 |
Boulder. In 1995 Cornell and Wieman gave the University of Colorado's George Gamow Memorial Lecture. For synthesizing the first Bose–Einstein condensate... 10 KB (960 words) - 05:48, 27 March 2024 |
including Willem de Sitter, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, George McVittie, and George Gamow (who stressed that "from the physical point of view we must... 23 KB (2,847 words) - 22:02, 4 May 2024 |
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... 6 KB (656 words) - 22:55, 7 April 2024 |
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... 97 KB (10,986 words) - 15:10, 3 May 2024 |
that our universe is expanding. Einstein then abandoned Λ, remarking to George Gamow "that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder... 34 KB (5,088 words) - 17:20, 27 March 2024 |
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).... 2 KB (211 words) - 21:20, 16 November 2022 |