George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)
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Gamow bridged Soviet and American physics while pioneering Big Bang theory, quantum tunneling, and the prediction of cosmic microwave background radiation. A polymath who touched nuclear decay, stellar nucleosynthesis, and molecular genetics.
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George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics.
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