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Philosopher Sidney Hook's Brooklyn rooftop to the Pacific rocks at La Jolla, where he perched Physicist George Gamow. It was the second time this year that we borrowed Eisie from LIFE. His gallery of distinguished businessmen appeared in the Man-of-the-Year issue (TIME...
...story starts in 1934 when George Gamow, a Russian physicist who had escaped from the U.S.S.R., arrived in the U.S. Gamow had a tale to tell that flashed back to 1932. He had talked at a Russian scientific meeting about a paper by an English astronomer and a German physicist who suggested that the energy radiated by the sun and other stars was caused by reactions between atomic nuclei. A nonscientist, Nikolai Bukharin, a top Communist official in the post-Lenin era, approached Gamow. He asked Gamow if nuclear reactions like those of the sun could be created on earth...
...Gamow's interest in stellar reactions led Hans Bethe to calculate systematically all thermonuclear reactions. Says Teller: "Gamow had invented a new kind of game for the physicists, and Bethe proved to be the champion...
...respectable model of the universe must explain successfully this relative abundance of the elements. One theory, the "evolving universe" (held by George Gamow and Ralph Alpher), presumes that about 5 billion years ago the universe started life with the great-great-grandfather of all explosions. The universe was then small, dense and hot, and was made up entirely of radiation and neutrons. As it exploded and expanded, most of the neutrons split into protons and electrons (hydrogen). A few joined together to form the heavier elements. It was all over in about 15 minutes; since then, the abundance of heavier...
...sequel to "The Birth and Death of the Sun" and "Biography of the Earth." "Creation of the Universe" completes Gamow's cosmological trilogy...