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    George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • The Gamow factor, Sommerfeld factor or Gamow–Sommerfeld factor, named after its discoverer George Gamow or after Arnold Sommerfeld, is a probability factor...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    of the cosmological redshift—as his "biggest blunder" (according to George Gamow). It transpired that adding the cosmological constant to Einstein's equations...
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  • 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...
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