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My World Line: An Informal Autobiography
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George Gamow
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This is an autobiography of the prominent Soviet-American nuclear physicist written in a style similar to that of the later Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Georgy Gamow was born in 1904 in Odessa into a family of schoolteachers. He studied physics at the University of Odessa (then the University of Novorossia) and later at the University of Leningrad, where he befriended Lev Landau and other subsequently less famous physicists. As a student, Gamow also taught physics at an artillery academy;
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I read this book when I was stuck in a tiny bedroom as a graduate student with meager salary (still as of today) but infinite passion for physics and cosmology.
I was lying in my bed with elbow against the wall while reading the chapter when Mr. Gamow make his grand escape with his wife through rafting the black sea. The illusion they felt, after days of hunger and despair, while floating in the middle of the gigantic water tank, also evoked my confrontation with my dream and its inextricable co ...more
I was lying in my bed with elbow against the wall while reading the chapter when Mr. Gamow make his grand escape with his wife through rafting the black sea. The illusion they felt, after days of hunger and despair, while floating in the middle of the gigantic water tank, also evoked my confrontation with my dream and its inextricable co ...more
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George Gamow (Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡaməf:]; March 4 [O.S. February 20:] 1904 – August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a theoretical physicist and cosmologist born in the Russian Empire. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis,
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