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Gamow

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Ga·mow  (gmou, gmôf, -f), George 1904-1968.
Russian-born American nuclear physicist known for his work on radioactivity and genetic information as well as his books popularizing theories of physics.
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Noun1.Gamow - United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968)
George Gamow


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These years were marked by frequent contact and collaboration with other great physicists who had emigrated from Europe to escape Hitler and the coming war, including Fermi, Bohr, Szilard, Wigner, George Gamow and Hans Bethe.
Bacon's Proof: The Career and Controversies of Edward Teller. (Books) by Schulman, Adam / The National Interest
Stories of his encounters and 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.
Genes, Girls, And Gamow: After The Double Helix by Science News
and building on the ideas of George Gamow - offered an elaboration of some of the Big Bang ideas that had been around since well before 1920.
HERMAN, ANALYZED UNIVERSE, TRAFFIC by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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