(Gamow) Georgiy antonovich (4.3.1904, Odessa,
-19.8.1968, Boulder, pieces of Colorado), American physicist.
Finished Leningrad university (1926). In 1928-31 it worked
in Gettingene, Copenhagen, Cambridge. In 1931-33 in the Physico-
tech. institute in Leningrad. In 1933 it emigrated first to
France, then to England. From 1934 - in THE USA. In
1934-56 Prof. of the university J. Washington in Washington, from 1956
universities in Colorado. G. gave the first quantum -vomexanic.
explanation of alpha decay. Made a significant contribution to
the theory of beta decay (contemporary with 3. Heller). In 1946
it advanced the hypothesis of the "hot universe" (see cosmology).
The first calculation of the genetic code made.
