Gamow

American  

[gam-awf, -of] / ˈgæm ɔf, -ɒf /

noun

1. George, 1904–68, U.S. nuclear physicist and writer, born in Russia.

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Example Sentences

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

Hoyle’s principal debate partner—from the media’s perspective at least—was Russian-Ukrainian-American physicist George Gamow.

From Scientific American

Faced with this news, Einstein decided a couple of years later to remove the cosmological constant from his equations, calling it “my biggest blunder,” according to physicist George Gamow.

From Scientific American

Unfortunately, neither Penzias and Wilson, nor any of the Princeton team, had read Gamow’s paper.

From Literature

Perplexed, Hunt decided to put him inside the pressurized Gamow Bag, which was set up in a lodge adjacent to the HRA clinic.

From Literature