George Gamow

Gamow, George. Mr. Tompkins in Paperback. Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press, 1994. 

Gamow, George. A Star Called the Sun. New York Viking Press, 1964. 

Gamow, George. Biography of the Earth, The Viking Press, Inc., New York, 1941 The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., New York, 1948 (paperback edition). 

Gamow, George (1958). Matter, Earth and Sky. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Elall. 

Gamow, George (1970). My World Line. New York Viking. 

Gamow, George. 1966. Thirty Years That Shook Physics. Doubleday. 

One of the first to show up was Werner Heisenberg, who later won a Nobel Prize. Soon afterward came George Gamow, the fun-loving Russian physicist who sorted out the nuclear reactions that power the stars. Erwin Schrodinger, who also won a Nobel Prize in physics, stopped by to lecture on his new wave theory. Wolfgang Pauli, who would also win a Nobel Prize for his contributions to quantum mechanics, was there, too. 

Fig. 2.1 George Gamow (1904-1968) was bom in Odessa, studied in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and emigrated in 1934 to the USA, where he taught in Washington, D.C., until 1965 and at the University of Colorado in Boulder for the last three years of his life...

The Hot Big Bang theory of the Universe was pioneered by George Gamow, R. A. Alpher and R. C. Herman in the late 1940s and early 50s. They supposed that during the first few minutes of the (then radiation-dominated) Universe, matter was originally present in the form of neutrons and that, after some free decay, protons captured neutrons and successive captures, followed by /3-decays, built up all the elements (Alpher Herman 1950). 

Liberation is the nervous system devoid of mental-conceptual activity. [Realization of the Voidness, the Unbecome, the Unborn, the Unmade, the Unformed, implies Buddhahood, Perfect Enlightenment - the state of the divine mind of the Buddha. It may be helpful to remember that this ancient doctrine is not in conflict with modem physics. The theoretical physicist and cosmologist, George Gamow, presented in 1950 a viewpoint which is close to the phenomenological experience described by the Tibetan lamas. 

The principle of small nuclear changes was given a theoretical basis by George Gamow. In 1928 he derived a successful theory of alpha decay, in which the nucleus is quantized and only small particles, such as protons or alpha particles, have a finite probability of tunneling through the nuclear barrier and escaping the nucleus. That... 

Weizsacker s theory shared with other theories of element formation the assumption of an equilibrium mechanism. It was the abandonment of this assumption in the 1940s that paved the way for the first successful big-bang model of the universe, proposed by George Gamow and his collaborators in 1948. That the equilibrium hypothesis might not be tenable had been suggested as early as 1931, when the two American chemists Harold Urey and Charles Bradley argued that the relative abundance of terrestrial elements could not be reconciled with the hypothesis, whatever the temperature of the equilibrium mixture. [45]... 

THIRTY YEARS THAT SHOOK PHYSICS The Story of Quantum Theory, George Gamow. Lucid, accessible introduction to influential theory of energy and matter. Careful explanations of Dirac s anti-particles, Bohr s model of the atom, much more. 12 plates. Numerous drawings. 240pp. 5X x 8H. 24895-X Pa. 5.95... 

The life of George Gamow (pronounced Gam-off) reads like a mix of suspense fiction and fairy tale. Blond, six-foot-three-inches tall, with milk-bottle thick glasses, he combined brilliant thinking with clever jokes and a clear, humorous style of writing about science for the public. 

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