George Gamow

College Professor/Cosmologist
Straight out of the USSR
US Citizen

Why can’t you trust an atom? They make up everything!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

I also wrote a couple science books! Pretty neat things I tell ya!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

Look at me! Imma big smart science guy. I look better than Tom Holland!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

@ejnar27ejnar Big smart yeah?

[Stephen Hawkins @step_hawk]

what is my least favorite song…

stairway to heaven

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

Physics yuhhh!!!!!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

@step_hawk Lol

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

@sciencebai Ikr right! Big flex! 💪

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

One of my greatest theories is the “Big Bang” on the origin of the universe!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”

-Myself (1937)

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

Most people think that due to my knowledge of radioactivity, think that I worked with Einstien. I did not work on the Manhattan project, but turned my interest to the history of the Solar System and cosmology.

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

Talking about my defection attempts, my first two attempts to defect with my wife were in 1932 and involved trying to kayak: first a planned 250-kilometer paddle over the Black Sea to Turkey, and another attempt from Murmansk to Norway. Didn’t work out so well…..

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

Что такое Поппин? When I was 6, my father got me a telescope for my birthday and I remember spending hours every night looking into the dark abyss. I loved it!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

In 1931 I was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

Did you know that in 1940, I had become a naturalized US citizen?

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

I also had to work very hard at my profession! It wasn’t easy getting to where I was before I died!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

In 1933 and two years prior, my wife and I tried to leave the Solviet Union, but we were denied. However, we were suddenly given permission to attend the Solvay Conference in Brussels.

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

As I got older, I started to have very bad health problems. :(

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

I lived to be 64 years old!!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

I also postulated that the Sun’s energy results from thermonuclear processes. Big flex yeah!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

One other fact! I used my knowledge of nuclear reactions to interpret stellar evolution, collaborating with Teller on a theory of the internal structures of red giant stars!

[George Gamow @cos_mologist04]

However, I also had a famous theory on radioactive alpha particle decay of atomic nuclei as well as the genetic code bring a triplet code! (Non-Astronomy)