Gamow
Americannoun
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That monumental discovery sparked decades of epic debates about the vastness and origins of the universe, and they involved a clash of titans, the Russian-American nuclear physicist George Gamow and the British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021
Hoyle’s principal debate partner—from the media’s perspective at least—was Russian-Ukrainian-American physicist George Gamow.
From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2021
Spillane, T. et al. 12C + 12C fusion reactions near the Gamow Energy.
From Nature • May 22, 2018
Lemaître, Alpher, and Gamow first worked out the ideas that are today called the Big Bang theory.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
This method derived from the theories of the Russian physicist George Gamow, who deduced from quantum mechanics that the occasional particle from even a moderately energetic beam could penetrate the nucleus.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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