• 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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    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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    the idea of stellar nucleosynthesis. In 1928 George Gamow derived what is now called the Gamow factor, a quantum-mechanical formula yielding the probability...
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    compared to the variation from the Gamow factor and so is approximated by a function called the astrophysical S-factor, S ( ϵ ) {\displaystyle S(\epsilon...
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    author of the FLRW metric of Universe George Gamow, discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and Gamow factor in stellar nucleosynthesis, introduced the...
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    Bohr–Sommerfeld model Sommerfeld–Wilson quantization Drude–Sommerfeld model Gamow–Sommerfeld factor Grimm–Sommerfeld rule Orr–Sommerfeld equation Rayleigh–Sommerfeld...
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  • E_{0}=\left({\sqrt {E_{G}}}\,kT/2\right)^{2/3}} is the Gamow peak energy, dependent on EG, the Gamow factor. Additionally, S(E)/E is the reaction cross section...
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  • best-known applications is in the exponent of the Gamow factor P (also known as the penetrability factor), P = exp ⁡ ( − 2 π η ) {\displaystyle P=\exp(-2\pi...
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  • metric of Universe George Gamow, theoretical physicist and cosmologist, discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and Gamow factor in stellar nucleosynthesis...
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  • 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 bottom...
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