George Gamow
- Born: March 4, 1904 (Odessa, Russia)
- Died: August 19, 1968 (Boulder, Colorado)
Education
- 1922–1923: Novorossia University
- 1923–1929: University of Leningrad
- 1928: PhD, University of Leningrad
Major Positions
- 1928–1929: University of Copenhagen, Carlsberg Fellow, Theoretical Physics Institute
- 1929–1930: Cambridge University, Rockefeller Fellow
- 1930–1931: University of Copenhagen, University Fellow, Theoretical Physics Institute
- 1931–1933: University of Leningrad, Professor
- 1934–1956: George Washington University, Professor
- 1956–1968: University of Colorado, Boulder, Professor
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, DC
George Washington University, Department of Special Collections, University Archives, Washington, DC
Correspondence, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives, College Park, Maryland
Oral History Interviews
- 1968: Available Online
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Karl Hufbauer, "George Gamow: 1904-1968", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
George Gamow, My World Line: An Informal Autobiography (New York: Viking, 1970)
Helge Kragh, Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)
Roger H. Stewer and Harry J. Lipkin, "Gamow's Theory of Alpha Decay," in Kaleidoscope of Science: The Israel Colloquium, Vol. 1, ed. Edna Ullmann-Margalit (Dordrecht : Reidel: 1986), 147-186
Helge Kragh, "Gamow's Game: The Road to the Hot Big Bang," Centaurus 38 (1996): 335-361
Eamon Harper, "George Gamow: Scientific Amateur and Polymath," Perspectives in Physics 3 (2001): 335-372
Helge Kragh, "George Gamow and the 'Factual Approach' to Relativistic Cosmology," in The Universe of General Relativity, ed. A. Kox and J. Eisenstaedt (Berlin: Springer Verlag: 2006), 175-188
David H. DeVorkin, "The Changing Place of Red Giant Stars in the Evolutionary Process," Journal for the History of Astronomy 37 (2006): 429-469
