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George Gamow

1904 - 1968

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George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model (the first mathematical model of the atomic nucleus), worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis (which he collectively called nucleocosmogenesis), and predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics. Gamow was a key figure in the development and understanding of quantum tunneling. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Gamow is the 138th most popular physicist (down from 98th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 47th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

George Gamow is most famous for his work on the Big Bang theory and his work on quantum physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Gamow ranks 138 out of 851. Before him are Carl Zeiss, Hans Bethe, James Franck, Robert Coleman Richardson, Emilio Segrè, and Emil Lenz. After him are C. V. Raman, Arno Allan Penzias, Pavel Cherenkov, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Roger Penrose, and Louis Néel.

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Among people born in 1904, George Gamow ranks 14. Before him are Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Cary Grant, Jean Gabin, Wendell Meredith Stanley, B. F. Skinner, and Ève Curie. After him are Johnny Weissmuller, Pavel Cherenkov, Harry Martinson, Louis Néel, Graham Greene, and Alexei Kosygin. Among people deceased in 1968, George Gamow ranks 15. Before him are Lev Landau, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Max Brod, Henry Hallett Dale, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Robert F. Kennedy. After him are Trygve Lie, Karl Barth, Georg von Küchler, Erwin Panofsky, Enid Blyton, and Corneille Heymans.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, George Gamow ranks 46 out of 1,365. Before him are Wilhelm Reich (1897), Simon Wiesenthal (1908), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Symon Petliura (1879), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), and Igor Sikorsky (1889). After him are Joseph Roth (1894), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), and Vladimir Horowitz (1903).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, George Gamow ranks 1. After him are Georges Charpak (1924), Moshé Feldenkrais (1904), Abram Ioffe (1880), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Ivan Puluj (1845), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Matvei Bronstein (1906), and Gregory Breit (1899).

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