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Noting that he would have to talk very fast to cover the subject, the eminent physicist George Gamow discussed the origin and development of the Universe last night in Burr...

Author: By William D. Phelan, | Title: Gamow Explains Rise of Cosmos | 4/27/1961 | See Source »

...George Gamow, noted science writer and professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, will discuss the "Origin of the Universe" tonight in Burr B at 8 p.m. The lecture is sponsored by Natural Sciences 5 and the Department of Biology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAMOW, SELDES TO SPEAK | 4/26/1961 | See Source »

While Olson was in jail, the state police also rummaged through his cottage without a search warrant, removed and destroyed several of his books. Among them: Crime and Punishment and One, Two, Three, Infinity, a lively treatise on numbers by Physicist George Gamow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Stranger in Town | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Professor Gamow at George Washington. Teller studied thermonuclear reactions (fusion of hydrogen nuclei) in the stars. That pure-science undertaking was to have momentous consequences: it led to the development of the H-bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Knowledge Is Power | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...country. He may be a maverick genius like Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, or a state Supreme Court chief justice who, like New Jersey's Arthur T. Vanderbilt, especially has devoted his talents to improving the courts. He may be doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief-or a physicist like George Gamow, who will explode: "Intellectual? Intellectualism? I don't know what you're talking about!" Indeed, one of the difficulties in tagging the U.S. intellectual is his own resistance to the tag. It is quite characteristic of America that Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner should declare, with a hint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parnassus, Coast to Coast | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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