Word: gamow
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...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...