Gamow, Barbara, 1905-1976

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George Gamow

1904, Mar. 4 Born Georgii Antonovic Gamov, Odessa, Russia 1928 Ph.D., physical science, University of Leningrad, Leningrad, USSR 1928 1929 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, Denmark 1929 1930 Rockefeller fellow, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England 1931 Married Lyubov Rho Vokhminzeva (divorced 1956) Published The Constitution of Atomic Nuclei and Radioactivity. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1931 1933 Professor, University of Leningrad, Leningrad, USSR 1933 1934 Lecturer, Paris, France, London, England, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 1934 1956 Professor of physics, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 1935 Collaborated with Edward Teller on the theory of beta-decay, and formulated the so-called "Gamow-Teller Selection Rule for Beta Emission" 1939 Proposed neutrino theory of supernovae Published Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1940 Became naturalized American citizen Published The Birth and Death of the Sun. New York: Viking Press 1941 Published Biography of the Earth; Its Past, Present, and Future. New York: Viking Press 1942 Shell model of red giant stars 1947 Published One, Two, Three...Infinity. New York: Viking Press 1948 Theory of the origin of chemical elements 1952 Published The Creation of the Universe. New York: Viking Press 1956 Awarded Kalinga Prize by Unesco for popularization of science 1956 1968 Professor of physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 1958 Published Matter, Earth, and Sky. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Married Barbara Merrihew Perkins 1961 Published Biography of Physics. New York: Harper 1968, Aug. 20 Died, Boulder, Colo. 1970 Posthumous publication My World Line. New York: Viking Press

Barbara Gamow

1905, May 22 Born Barbara Merrihew Perkins, San Francisco, Calif. 1938 Married J. R. de la Torre Bueno (divorced circa 1943) circa 1950 1958 Employed by Cambridge University Press 1958 Married George Gamow 1976 Died From the guide to the George Gamow and Barbara Gamow Papers, 1915-1975, (bulk 1950-1975), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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