Word: gamow
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Died. George Gamow, 64, Russian-born theoretical physicist and astronomer; of a gastric hemorrhage; in Boulder, Colo. Although he worked in the arcane worlds of entropy and anti-numbers, Gamow had a rare gift for explaining science to the layman. While teaching at George Washington University, he put his clarity and common sense into nine books, including The Birth and Death of the Sun (1940) and The Creation of the Universe...
...Gamow, George Biography of Physicists. (Harpers...
...course as completely out of our ordinary field of interest as Soc. Sci. 8 or who were grateful for the opportunity of acquiring some background in world history with the aid of Soc. Sci. 1 would regret the denial of this alternative to others. Dorothy Balogh '64, Sondra Gamow...
McCullough '65, of Comsteck Hall and Tampa, Florida, art and layout board chairman; Soudra B. Gamow '64, of Comteck Hall and Teaneck, N.J., cierk; and Thomas M. Bettridge '63, of Adams House and Waterville, Ohio, publicity and competitions director
...extension catalogue of more than 1,000 courses and seminars is a sort of intellectual Burpee's. Poring over this document, Angelenos can find anything from mortuary science, avant-garde French theater and "Values of Contemporary Man," to applied combinatorial mathematics taught by George (One, Two, Three . . . Infinity) Gamow and "Flights of Reality" as charted by Novelist Erskine Caldwell. The catalogue has revolutionized cocktail chatter from Bel Air to Beverly Hills...