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