1934-1956 Professor, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. During the early years in Washington he collaboratedwith Edward Teller on the theory of beta-decay, and formulated the so-called ...

The George Gamow Memorial Lecture series honors the eminent Russian-born physicist, who joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado in 1956. Professor Gamow brought ...

Laura Hiscott reviews Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate by Paul Halpern Creative destruction Fred Hoyle showed how carbon-12 and heavier nuclei can be formed ...

Half a century ago, if you asked any teenage science fan to name the best popular science writers, you’d get two names: Isaac Asimov and George Gamow. Asimov was prominent not only for his ...

Hoyle’s principal debate partner—from the media’s perspective at least—was Russian-Ukrainian-American physicist George Gamow. Gamow died in 1968, more than three decades before Hoyle ...

In the annals of scientific history, some names shine brightly while others, despite their brilliance, remain cast in the shadow. One such tale unfolds in the spring of 1948, when a PhD student ...

By Ramin Skibba FLASHES OF CREATION George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate By Paul Halpern The universe is changing. But scientists didn’t realize that a century ago ...

Does it occur to you, when waiting for an elevator, that elevators always seem to be going the wrong way? It occurred to two physicists, too. And, with a little work, they proved that this wasn ...

One, Fred Hoyle, was a steady state supporter who thought the universe would last forever. Meanwhile, George Gamow, the major public advocate of the Big Bang, begged to differ. They debated in the ...

At the forefront of that debate stood physicists George Gamow and Fred Hoyle: One advocated for an expanding universe that sprouted from a hot, dense state; the other for a cosmos that is eternal ...

It was an astonishing prediction dating back to George Gamow all the way in the 1940s, and it shocked the astronomical world when it was directly detected back in the 1960s. Over the past 55 years ...