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Gamow, George
1904 - Born in the town of Odessa, in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine on the 4th of March.
1922 - He was educated at the Novorossiya University in Odessa.
1923 - The University of Leningrad.
1928 - He then worked at the Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Copenhagen, with a break to work with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
- Gamow had solved the theory of the alpha decay of a nucleus via tunnelling.
1932 - His first two attempts to defect with his wife, Lyubov Vokhminzeva and involved attempting to kayak: first a 250 kilometer paddle over the Black Sea to Turkey and then from Murmansk to Norway. Poor weather foiled both attempts.
1933 - The two tried a less dramatic approach Gamow managed to obtain permission for himself and his wife to attend the Solvay Conference for physicists in Brussels.
1934 - They moved to the United States.
- He began working at George Washington University.
1940 - Gamow became a naturalized American.
1948 - Gamow produced an important cosmogony paper with his student Ralph Alpher, which was published as "The Origin of Chemical Elements".
1954 - Gamow remained in Washington, then worked at University of California, Berkeley.
1956 - Remained University of Colorado at Boulder.
1968 - On the 19th of August, George Gamow died at age 64 in Boulder, Colorado, and was buried there in Green Mountain Cemetery.
1922 - He was educated at the Novorossiya University in Odessa.
1923 - The University of Leningrad.
1928 - He then worked at the Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Copenhagen, with a break to work with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
- Gamow had solved the theory of the alpha decay of a nucleus via tunnelling.
1932 - His first two attempts to defect with his wife, Lyubov Vokhminzeva and involved attempting to kayak: first a 250 kilometer paddle over the Black Sea to Turkey and then from Murmansk to Norway. Poor weather foiled both attempts.
1933 - The two tried a less dramatic approach Gamow managed to obtain permission for himself and his wife to attend the Solvay Conference for physicists in Brussels.
1934 - They moved to the United States.
- He began working at George Washington University.
1940 - Gamow became a naturalized American.
1948 - Gamow produced an important cosmogony paper with his student Ralph Alpher, which was published as "The Origin of Chemical Elements".
1954 - Gamow remained in Washington, then worked at University of California, Berkeley.
1956 - Remained University of Colorado at Boulder.
1968 - On the 19th of August, George Gamow died at age 64 in Boulder, Colorado, and was buried there in Green Mountain Cemetery.
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