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I suppose that George Gamow is a bit dated now, but half a century ago he was an inspiration to me and I read everything of his I could get my hands on. Lisa R
by russell 12y ago
I suppose that George Gamow is a bit dated now, but half a century ago he was an inspiration to me and I read everything of his I could get my hands on. Lisa Randall's Warped Passages was also a lot of fun.
- jschwartzi 12y agoWhen I earned my undergraduate degree in Physics our Modern Physics professor had us read Mr. Tompkins in Paperback by Gamow. This was in 2006.
- spdustin 12y agoIt's a shame more people don't know his name. He postulated that the primordial universe was hot (mostly energy/radiation), described how that radiation condensed into matter, and gave us stellar nucleosynthesis - the science behind, "we're made of star stuff," in a paper attributed to Alpher, Bethe and Gamow. Who doesn't love a cosmologist with a sense of humor?
- CamperBob2 12y agoYep, and Bethe had no clue until the paper came out with his name on it. Gamow just couldn't resist adding his name as a joke.