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George Gamow

1904 - 1968

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George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Gamow has received more than 695,827 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). George Gamow is the 98th most popular physicist (up from 106th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 46th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

George Gamow is most famous for his work on the Big Bang theory and his work on quantum physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Gamow ranks 98 out of 851. Before him are Leo Szilard, Peter Higgs, Emil Lenz, Gustaf Dalén, Aage Bohr, and William Rowan Hamilton. After him are Owen Willans Richardson, Edward Victor Appleton, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Dennis Gabor, François Arago, and Willis Lamb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, George Gamow ranks 13. Before him are Umberto II of Italy, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Jean Gabin, B. F. Skinner, Ève Curie, and Johnny Weissmuller. After him are Alexei Kosygin, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Graham Greene, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Karl Brandt, and René Lacoste. Among people deceased in 1968, George Gamow ranks 14. Before him are John Steinbeck, Lev Landau, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, Trygve Lie, and Max Brod. After him are Karl Barth, Salvatore Quasimodo, Georg von Küchler, Erwin Panofsky, Henry Hallett Dale, and Enid Blyton.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, George Gamow ranks 47 out of 1,365. Before him are Igor Sikorsky (1889), Levi Eshkol (1895), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Nestor Makhno (1888), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), and Simon Wiesenthal (1908). After him are Anne of Kiev (1025), Symon Petliura (1879), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), and Semyon Timoshenko (1895).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, George Gamow ranks 1. After him are Georges Charpak (1924), Moshé Feldenkrais (1904), Abram Ioffe (1880), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Ivan Puluj (1845), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Matvei Bronstein (1906), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), and Isaak Khalatnikov (1919).

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