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1904–1968 Soviet Union
George Gamow [pronounced "GAM-off"] (March 4 1904 – August 19 1968) was an American physicist and cosmologist of Russian descent. He developed the Big Bang theory of cosmology, using it to predict the existence of Cosmic background radiation, and his insight that DNA nucleotides probably formed "a triplet code of four symbols" was influential on very important research and discoveries in genetics.
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But while in the free countries philosophers are quite harmless, in the dictatorial countries they constitute a great danger for the development of science.
My World Line : An Informal Autobiography (1970)
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!
The Creation of the Universe (1952)
If only there were at least one film with some real adventure, something unusual and maybe even fantastic about it.
Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland (1939)
I feel that matter has properties which physics tells you.
It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab whenever he merely stepped across the threshold.
Thirty Years That Shook Physics : The Story of Quantum Theory (1966)
There was a young fellow from Trinity,
So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.
I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance.
Well, that might be something!
Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland (1939)
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.
The Creation of the Universe (1952)
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