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George Gamow
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George Gamow was a Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who lived from 1904 to 1968 and made significant contributions to our understanding of physics and the origins of the universe. His work matters because he helped develop foundational theories about atomic physics, nuclear decay, and the Big Bang model of cosmology that continue to shape modern science.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1904
- Died
- 1968
- Works
- 107
Top works
- Gravity
- L'energia atomica nella vita cosmica ed umana
- George Gamov and astrophysics
- Laughing Space
- Biografía de la Tierra
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1685-02-23
- Active to
- 1759-04-14
Discography
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 236
- Cited by
- 7,941
Research areas
Most cited works
- Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes1928 · 2,303 cit
- The Origin of Chemical Elements1948 · 698 cit
- Possible Relation between Deoxyribonucleic Acid and Protein Structures1954 · 390 cit
- Expanding Universe and the Origin of Elements1946 · 384 cit
- The Evolution of the Universe1948 · 248 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,955x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,650x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,940x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,696x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,207x
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Quotes
- “There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.”
- “I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance.”
- “I feel that matter has properties which physics tells you.”
- “So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.”
- “If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.”
- “It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Georgy
- Family name
- Gamov
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Odesa
- Place of death
- Boulder
- Occupation
- astrophysicist
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Employer
- Ioffe Institute
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Russian
- Religion
- atheism
- Notable work
- Alpher–Bethe–Gamow theory
- Participant in
- Manhattan Project
- Student of
- Alexander Friedmann
- Doctoral student
- Vera Rubin
- Field of work
- children's and young adult literature
- Image
- 格·安·伽莫夫.jpg
- Residence
- Odesa
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- Commons category
- George Gamow
- date of birth
- 1904-03-04
- date of death
- 1968-08-19
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Erdős number
- 4
- Commons gallery
- George Gamow
- birth name
- Геóргий Анто́нович Га́мов
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Гео́ргий Анто́нович Га́мов
- interested in
- physical cosmology
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Expansion · Future
Hubble's law · Redshift
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