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.

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.

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

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.

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