George Gamow (1904--1968)

Sites

1. George Gamow A site by Gamow's son Igor Gamow.

Works

1. Gamow, G. 1970, My World Line: An Informal Autobiography} (New York: The Viking Press) (Ga)

   A nice memoir by the man who probably deserves most credit for inventing the big bang theory. I used to own a copy, but loaned it to a student who subsequently probably lost it---she didn't give it back anyway.

   It had some great pictures. One was a tableau from student days. George was a guest in a ``maison'': Lev Landau was the violinist. George's wife and the future Lady Peierls (on George's lap) were the girls. One of my old professors, Rajat Bhaduri was a postdoc with Peierls and was a great friend of the Peierls: I think he would have fallen off a chair laughing if I'd ever shown him that picture: alas, the book is gone.

Images

1. George Gamow
2. Gamow Young Rockefellor Fellow at Cambridge
3. The Man in the White Suit George Gamow (1904--1968) receives the Kalinga Prize by UNESCO for popularization of science.