George Gamow (Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡaməf]; March 4, 1904 – August 19, 1968) , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian Empire-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, nucleocosmogenesis and genetics.
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George Gamow (Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡaməf]; March 4, 1904 – August 19, 1968) , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian Empire-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, nucleocosmogenesis and genetics.
Gamow was born in the city of Odessa, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) to mixed Russian-Ukrainian parents. He was educated at the Novorossiya University in Odessa (1922–23) and at the University of Leningrad (1923–1929). Gamow studied under Alexander Friedmann for some time in Leningrad, though Friedmann died in 1925. At the University Gamow made friends with two other students of theoretical physics, Lev Landau and Dmitri Ivanenko. The three formed a group known as the Three Musketeers which met to discuss and analyze the ground-breaking papers on...
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