George Gamow
George Gamow (March 4th 1904, Odessa (then in Russia) - August 19th 1968, Boulder (Colorado, the United States)), born Georgy Antonovitch Gamow ( ГеоргийАнтоновичГамов ), is a physicist Russo-American.
Work
He is the son of a professor of letter. He studies at the university of Odessa, then in Saint-Pétersbourg where he studies with Alexandre Friedmann, a famous cosmologist. It then is interested in the quantum Mécanique and the Theory of relativity.In 1928, provided with a purse, it leaves to work in Göttingen with max Born, making projections in the comprehension of the Radioactivité α. Two months later, it joined Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. It puts forward the idea of an atomic nucleus behaving like a fluid nuclear power , model almost taken again a decade later by Bohr. In 1929, it obtains a new purse and it joined Ernest Rutherford at the university of Cambridge. It develops the idea of the Tunnel effect in order to make interact higher protons and atomic nuclei. It meets there John Cockroft which builds shortly after the Particle accelerator first , thus managing to validate the model of Gamow by making a success of a Transmutation of the Lithium 7.
In 1931, it goes back to Moscow to renew its visa but this last is refused. It meets Lyubov Vokhminzeva which it marries shortly after. He works then at the university of Leningrad in physics but is opposed to the designs of his hierarchically superior what is worth to him to leave its station.
In 1933, it is invited to the Congrès Solvay and it obtains a visa: it then leaves definitively the Soviet Union with his wife. It obtains a post of professor at the university George Washington in Michigan where it works on the Nuclear physics and the Cosmologie. It acquires American nationality in 1940. In 1943, it takes part in the construction of the atomic bomb with Los Alamos.
In 1948, with Ralph Alpher, it publishes a capital article on the formation of the elements during the first phases of the expansion of the universe, thus taking part in the development of the theory of the Big Bang. Gamow, assisted of Alpher, described the universe of origin, the Ylem, like a " dense soup of neutrons and protons". Anecdotiquement, it includes in the signatories Hans Bethe, who at all did not take part in the drafting of the article, just to make a pun on the authors: Alpher, Better and Gamow (alpha, beta and gamma…), proving, once more, its facetious character.
From 1950, Gamow is interested in the Génétique. It calculates, as of 1954, the possible relation between genetic code and sequence of proteins. In 1956, it joined the university of Colorado and writes in an autobiography published on a purely posthumous basis in 1970.