George Gamow
| Nummer | B486 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Beskrivelse | George Gamow portrait photograph. |
| Bemærkning | George Gamow (1904 - 1968) was a Russian physicist.
After graduation from the University of Leningrad in 1926, he attended summer school in Gottingen and decided to see if the newly formulated quantum theory, so successful in explaining the structure of the atom, could also be applied to the atomic nucleus. Through research he was able to explain the then-mysterious phenomenon of natural radioactivity. He worked with Bohr in Copenhagen between 1929 and 1930. In 1934 he emigrated to USA where he worked at the George Washington University and the University of Colorado. In 1956 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize by UNESCO for popularization of science. |
| Årstal | 1938 |
| Fotograf | Ukendt |
| Arkiv | Niels Bohr Archive |
