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2 unusual facts about George Gamow


Gamow

George Gamow (1904-1968), Russian born physicist and cosmologist

Ylem

Ylem is a term that was used by George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and their associates in the late 1940s for a hypothetical original substance or condensed state of matter, which became subatomic particles and elements as we understand them today.



see also

Gamow

Igor Gamow (born 1936), American inventor, son of George Gamow

Mr Tompkins

In 2010 the first volume of a proposed ten-issue comic book series, The Adventures of Mr. Tompkins, was created by Igor Gamow, George Gamow's son, and illustrator Scorpio Steele.