• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    measurements. The formula represents the liquid-drop model proposed by George Gamow, which can account for most of the terms in the formula and gives rough...
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    Rutherford in 1899, and by 1907 they were identified as He2+ ions. By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of alpha decay via tunneling. The alpha particle...
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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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  • 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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