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n. - United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968).

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  • This quantum mechanical probability is now universally known as the Gamow factor. ''
  • Gamow, The Creation of the Universe (New York, 1952).
  • Rutherford invited Gamow to Cambridge in January 1929.
  • Gamow quickly reorganized the meeting so that fission became the main subject.
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