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Gamow had the name of Hans Bethe listed on the article as " H. Bethe, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York " to make a pun on the first three letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha, beta and gamma.
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By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of the alpha decay via tunneling.
Gamow solved a model potential for the nucleus and derived, from first principles, a relationship between the half-life of the decay, and the energy of the emission, which had been previously discovered empirically, and was known as the Geiger – Nuttall law.
By 1928, Gamow had solved the theory of the alpha decay of a nucleus via tunnelling, with mathematical help from Nikolai Kochin.
Gamow solved a model potential for the nucleus and derived from first principles a relationship between the half-life of the alpha-decay event process and the energy of the emission, which had been previously discovered empirically, and was known as the Geiger-Nuttall law.
The elevator paradox is a paradox 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 bottom of the building noticed that the first elevator to stop at his floor was most often going down, while Stern, who had an office near the top, noticed that the first elevator to stop at his floor was most often going up.
Although his name appears on the paper, Hans Bethe had no durect part in the development of the theory, although he later worked on related topics ; Gamow added his name to make the seminal paper's title a pun on " Alpha-Beta-Gamma ", the first three letters of the Greek alphabet.
Other scientists who read the paper may have assumed ( erroneously ) that Gamow and Bethe had been the primary contributors.
Scientists like Hans Bethe and George Gamow felt that Teller had committed the nation to an expensive crash program on the basis of a model that he knew was flawed.
Gamow and name
Some years later, the name Gamow factor or Gamow-Sommerfeld Factor was applied to the probability of incoming nuclear particles tunneling through the electrostatic Coulomb barrier and undergoing nuclear reactions.
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* 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
In 1959, Gamow, Hans Bethe, and Victor Weisskopf publicly supported the re-entry of Frank Oppenheimer into teaching college physics at the University of Colorado, as the Red Scare began to fade.
Gamow and Bethe
Alpher and Gamow would publish the seminal Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper ( the addition of Bethe as an author was a joke, see the article on the paper ) outlining the theory of light-element production in the early universe.
* R. A. Alpher, H. A. Bethe, G. Gamow, The Origin of Chemical Elements, Physical Review 73 ( 1948 ), 803.
-Alpher – Bethe – Gamow theory
After learning about this work, a group of physicists from Princeton University interpreted it as background radiation of cosmic origin, but without reference to the two 1948 papers, one by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow ( therefore sometimes called the α-β-γ paper ) and the other by Alpher and Herman.
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In his middle and late career, Gamow focussed more on teaching, and became well known as an author of popular books on science, including One Two Three ... Infinity, and the Mr. Tompkins ... series of books ( 1939 – 1967 ).
In 1933 Gamow was suddenly granted permission to attend the 7th Solvay Conference on physics, in Brussels.
During World War II, Gamow did not work directly on the Manhattan Project producing the atomic bomb, in spite of his knowledge of radioactivity and nuclear fusion.
Gamow continued his teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and focused increasingly on writing textbooks and books on science for the general public.
Gamow was working on a textbook entitled Basic Theories in Modern Physics, with Richard Blade, but it was not completed before he died.
Houtermans and Gamow did pioneering work on quantum tunneling in 1928.
Big bounce models have a venerable history and were endorsed on largely aesthetic grounds by cosmologists including Willem de Sitter, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, George McVittie and George Gamow ( who stressed that " from the physical point of view we must forget entirely about the precollapse period ").
In the early 1960s, work on Brans-Dicke theory led Dicke to think about the early Universe, and with Jim Peebles he re-derived the prediction of a cosmic microwave background ( having allegedly forgotten the earlier prediction of George Gamow and co-workers ).
The theory is based on the liquid drop model proposed by George Gamow, which can account for most of the terms in the formula and gives rough estimates for the values of the coefficients.
Gamow worked on Phycomyces blakesleeanus during a postdoc under Max Delbruck at Caltech.
Igor Gamow conducts research in bionics, on an orthopedic knee brace that stores energy within a spring from the hamstring and redirects it to the quadriceps.
He met eminent Russian physicist George Gamow at the University, who subsequently took him on as his doctoral student.
This was somewhat of a coup, as Gamow was an eminent Soviet defector and one of the luminaries on the GWU faculty.
Shortly after the end of World War II in Europe, the Russian emigre American physicist George Gamow co-authored an influential paper supporting Weizsäcker's work on planetary formation in the early solar system.
Gamow is a large lunar crater on the far side of the Moon.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the etter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Gamow.
Gamow and article
* Fear and Groping In Boulder Denver Westworld June 1996 article, this article contains three sexual harassment stories, scan down to the heading ' Freshman Disorientation ' for the one referencing Igor Gamow
* Isn't It Romantic Denver Westworld July 1996 article, documents an accusation of sexual harassment that was not upheld by university review despite finding the accuser ' credible ' and recommending that Igor Gamow take four hours of sexual-harassment training
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Bragg Laboratory staff in 1931: William Henry Bragg | W. H. Bragg ( sitting, center ): physicist A. Lebedev ( leftmost ), G. Gamow ( rightmost )
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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.
As George Gamow put in his science-popularizing book, One, Two, Three ... Infinity ( 1947 ), " The metallic substances differ from all other materials by the fact that the outer shells of their atoms are bound rather loosely, and often let one of their electrons go free.
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.
** 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.
In Colorado, where he rejoined his friends Gamow, Richtmyer, and Hawkins, Ulam's research interests turned toward biology.
In 1982, Ulam gave an overview of these ideas in his Gamow memorial lecture at the University of Colorado.
The history of Big Bang nucleosynthesis began with the calculations of Ralph Alpher and George Gamow in the 1940s.
The so-called αβγ paper, in which Alpher and Gamow suggested that the light elements were created by hydrogen ions capturing neutrons in the hot, dense early universe.
* G. Gamow, The Origin of Elements and the Separation of Galaxies, Physical Review 74 ( 1948 ), 505.
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