By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of the alpha decay via tunneling.

The other was Lemaître's Big Bang theory, advocated and developed by George Gamow, who introduced big bang nucleosynthesis ( BBN ) and whose associates, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, predicted the cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMB ).

One was Lemaître's Big Bang theory, advocated and developed by George Gamow.

The basic theory of nucleosynthesis was developed in 1948 by George Gamow, Ralph Asher Alpher and Robert Herman.

He used the summer months of his graduate studies to work with planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper ( thesis advisor ), physicist George Gamow, and chemist Melvin Calvin.

George Gamow postulated that a three-letter code must be employed to encode the 20 standard amino acids used by living cells to build proteins.

George Gamow proposed that the genetic code was composed of sequences of three DNA base pairs known as triplets or codons which represent one of the twenty amino acids.

A different version of this parody attributed to George Gamow and Nigel Calder was published in Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction by Linda Sparke and John Gallagher ( Cambridge University Press, 2000-ISBN 0-521-59740-4 ).

** Scientists Ralph Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper about the big bang.

** George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist ( d. 1968 )

* August 19 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist ( b. 1904 )

To advocate an aggressive development program, Ernest Lawrence and Luis Alvarez came to Los Alamos, where they conferred with Norris Bradbury, the laboratory director, and with George Gamow, Edward Teller, and Ulam.

The history of Big Bang nucleosynthesis began with the calculations of Ralph Alpher and George Gamow in the 1940s.

This instrument was first proposed in 1932 by George Gamow and Lev Mysovskii and was installed and running by 1937.

* 1929 — George Gamow proposes hydrogen fusion as the energy source for stars

* 1948 — Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe (" in absentia "), and George Gamow examine element synthesis in a rapidly expanding and cooling universe, and suggest that the elements were produced by rapid neutron capture

* 1948 — George Gamow predicts the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation by considering the behavior of primordial radiation in an expanding universe

George Gamow (; August 19, 1968 ), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov ( Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов ), was a theoretical physicist and cosmologist — notably an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory.

During the period 1931-1933, George Gamow worked in the Physical Department of the Radium Institute ( Leningrad ) headed by Vitaly Khlopin.

Under the guidance and direct participation of Igor Kurchatov, Lev Mysovskii and George Gamow, Europe's first cyclotron was designed.

In 1932, George Gamow and Lev Mysovskii submitted a draft design for consideration by the Academic Council of the Radium Institute, which approved it.

George Gamow became a naturalized American in 1940.

Grave of George Gamow in Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Gamow worked at George Washington University from 1934 until 1954, when he became a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Is George put the cat out, dominant stress will ordinarily be on the first complement, the cat, not the second complement out.

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

The resulting article in SURFER Magazine, " Quest for Fire " by journalist Sam George, put the Andaman Islands on the surfing map for the first time.

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

Such a company " George Orwell Productions Ltd " ( GOP Ltd ) was set up on 12 September 1947 although the service agreement was not then put into effect.

Peter Davison's publication of the Complete Works of George Orwell, completed in 2000, put most of the Orwell Archive in the public domain.

" George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story in subsequent years of one of his final visits to Groucho's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Groucho from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to " walk " the frail comedian backwards across the room toward his bed.

Bremer's transitional government featured figures close to the George W. Bush administration, such as grain-trading industry lobbyist Dan Amstutz, who was put in charge of agricultural policy in Iraq.

The American Vision for Space Exploration, originally introduced by President George W. Bush and put into practice through the Constellation program, had as a long term goal to eventually send human astronauts to Mars.

In what has come to be known as " the Pine Tar Incident ," umpires discovered illegal placement of pine tar ( more than 18 inches up the handle ) on third baseman George Brett's bat after he had hit a two-run home run off Gossage that put the Royals up 5 – 4 in the top of the 9th. The baseball bat used by Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett ( baseball ) | George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983.

The merger is a result of 20 years of effort put forth by both the AFL and CIO presidents, George Meany and Walter Reuther.

For example, in George Carlin's phrase " Atheism is a non-prophet institution ", the word " prophet " is put in place of its homophone " profit ", altering the common phrase " non-profit institution ".

Scott's orchestration of King George IV's visit to Scotland, in 1822 was a pivotal event intended to inspire a view of his home country that, in his view, accentuated the positive aspects of the past while allowing the age of quasi-mediaeval blood-letting to be put to rest and the envisioning of a more useful, hopefully peaceful future.

Although Vikings quarterback Jeff George threw for 423 yards and 4 touchdowns, 3 of his scores occurred late in the fourth quarter after the Rams had already put the game away.

H. Oskar Sommer first put forth this theory in his 1890 edition of Le Morte d ' Arthur and Harvard Professor George Lyman Kittredge provided the evidence in 1896.

Wharton's club came to an end in 1721 when George I, under the influence of Wharton's political enemies ( namely Robert Walpole ) put forward a Bill " against ' horrid impieties '" ( or immorality ), aimed at the Hellfire Club.

Tesla's designs are soon put in practical use by George Westinghouse of the Westinghouse Electric.

George III was able to crush the revolt and embarked on a campaign of crackdown on the defiant aristocratic clans ; Ivane Orbeli was put to death and the surviving members of his family were driven out of Georgia.

George Templeton Strong noted in his diary: " People say the plot's immoral, but I don't see that it's so much worse than many others, not to speak of Don Giovanni, which as put on the stage is little but rampant lechery ", while the Evening Post critic wrote: " Those who have quietly sat through the glaring improprieties of Don Giovanni will hardly blush or frown at anything in La traviata.

* July 1: King George III Addresses Parliament stating they will " put a speedy end " to the rebellion

Students of Professor John F. Banzhaf III from the George Washington University Law School, collectively known as Banzhaf's Bandits, found four residents of the state of Maryland willing to put their names on a case and sought to have Agnew repay the state $ 268, 482 — the amount it was said he had taken in bribes.

These programs were undercut significantly by the Global Gag Rule, an initiative put in place by President Ronald Reagan, suspended by President Bill Clinton, and re-instated by President George W. Bush.