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Gamow, George
Gamow, George (1904–68)Ukrainian‐Americanscientist (originally Georgy Anthonovich Gamov). He applied his early training in nuclear physics to astrophysics and cosmology. He developed his version of the Big Bang theory in the late 1940s, with the American physicists Ralph Asher Alpher (1921– ) and Robert Herman (1914–97). It proposed that the Universe underwent a rapid expansion from a hot concentration of atomic particles and radiation, which he called ‘ylem’, building the nuclei of the elements in the process. The theory predicted a Universe containing three-quarters hydrogen and one-quarter helium, roughly in accordance with present-day measurements, and that it would cool as it expanded. Alpher and Herman suggested that the present, cooled-down Universe should be pervaded by a
cosmic microwave background with a temperature of about 5 K; their suggestion was forgotten until the radiation was detected in 1964.
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Monday Book: A quantum leap for the fun of physics The New World of Mr Tompkins by George Gamow and Russell Stannard, (Cambridge University Press, pounds 14.95)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/11/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...quantum physicist and cosmologist George Gamow. They introduced generations of...reprinted in 1965 (three years before Gamow died) as Mr Tompkins in Paperback...imagine the ebullient, impatient Gamow sitting down to compile. I had two...
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Genes, Girls, And Gamow: After The Double Helix.
Magazine article from: Science News; 3/9/2002; 484 words
; ...work with some of the leading scientists of the 20th century include Linus Pauling, Richard Feynman, and especially George Gamow, the Russian physicist with whom Watson founded the legendary RNA-Tie Club. Watson's continued relationship with...
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Del. Norton Introduces Resolution Concerning George Washington University
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/6/2008; 682 words
; ...Whereas Steven Knapp, president of The George Washington University, Executive...Lehman, and Professor of Physics George Gamow have shown their ardent support for...Olympiad National Tournament at The George Washington University: Now, therefore...
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It's No Accident: The George Washington University's Federal Highway Administration Grant For National Crash Analysis Center Renewed
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 2/23/2009; 700+ words
; George Washington University issued the following...vehicle safety will be the top priority of The George Washington University's National Crash...vice president for academic affairs and George Gamow Professor of Theoretical Physics, said...
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TENURED PROF OUT TO SAVE REPUTATION CU EDUCATOR'S JOB ON LINE BECAUSE OF SEXUAL ALLEGATIONS.(City Desk/Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/20/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...mountain climbers who have contracted high-altitude sickness. Engineering's Gamow Tower on the Boulder campus is named after Gamow's father, CU physicist George Gamow. The senior Gamow helped develop the Big Bang theory of the universe. The...
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Former U. Colorado professor fights back
News Wire article from: University Wire; 5/25/2004; ; 640 words
; ...for cause in the university's history. Gamow, tenured since 1974, has won many accolades for his inventions. The Gamow Tower on campus is named after his father, the late George Gamow, a renowned "big-bang theory" physicist...
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RALPH ALPHER
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/2/2007; 700+ words
; ...the early 1940s, Alpher had started night classes at George Washington University in Washington, DC, under the supervision of George Gamow. Gamow, a flamboyant, hard-drinking womaniser, and one...
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Life Science
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Russian expatriate physicist George Gamow, to cite only a few...friends, and a dozen of Gamow's high-spirited...tidbits. We find that Gamow, when he learned that...to America to teach at George Washington University...
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Mr. Tompkins in paperback
Newspaper article from: The Weekly Gleaner; 7/1/2004; ; 609 words
; ...Tompkins stories by renowned physicist George Gamow does just that. One of the best...Paperback written over fifty years ago. Gamow's stories about the curious bank...fantastic world of physics. I first read Gamow's book over thirty years ago while...
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Hangovers and pranks on the trail to the Nobel.(SUNDAY REVIEW)(Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 2/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Carl T. Hall Genes, Girls, and Gamow After the Double Helix By James D...biology. Now, in "Genes, Girls and Gamow: After the Double Helix," Watson...the hard-drinking, joke-loving George Gamow, the Russian-born theoretical...
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George Gamow
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Gamow The Russian-American physicist George Gamow (1904-1968) made important contributions to nuclear...astrophysics and biology and wrote books popularizing science. George Gamow was born in Odessa, Russia, on March 4, 1904. He became...
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Gamow, George
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Gamow, George ( b . Odessa, Russia...In the fall of 1934 Gamow was appointed professor of physics at George Washington University...accepting his position at George Washington University, Gamow persuaded Edward Teller...
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Astronomy
Book article from: American Decades
...dynamic and expanding. In the 1940s astronomer George Gamow and his colleagues at George Washington University proposed a model of the...the history of stellar astronomy. Sources: George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe (New York...
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Big Bang Theory
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...Russian-born American cosmologist and nuclear physicist George Gamow (1904 – 1968) developed the modern version...explosion actually took place to initiate this expansion. George Gamow further investigated the origin of the universe in 1948...
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Cosmic Background Radiation
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...American physicist and cosmologist George Gamow. Although the temperature that characterized...structure from the present one. It was Gamow and colleagues who suggested that...model of the universe championed by Gamow and colleagues and disparagingly...
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