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Latest and most informing biography of the star that sustains all life of earth was published this week by Professor George Gamow ( The Birth and Death of the Sun - Viking - $3). A distinguished Russian-born physicist who is now at George Washington University (Washington, D. C.), author of a recent popularization of physics called Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, Dr. Gamow writes clearly and imaginatively, knows when to stop short of over taxing lay readers. Some of his premises in The Birth and Death of the Sun are speculative and controversial, but they are based on the best recent investigations...
...England two years ago suggested that the negative-spinners were composed of negative protons combined with positrons. The existence of positive-negative electron mates, said he, "suggests, on grounds of symmetry, that a negative proton might be expected to exist." Anderson had also declared himself for this particle; Gamow of Russia thought it might help to explain artificial radioactivity. Max Born, distinguished German exile now in England, guessed that in some distant regions of the universe the rule of the atom might be reversed-negative protons at the core and positive electricity outside...