| George Gamow  AKA Georgy Antonovich Gamov
Born: 4-Mar-1904
Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
Died: 19-Aug-1968
Location of death: Boulder, CO
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, CO
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Proponent of Big Bang Theory Father: Anthony M. Gamow
Mother: Alexandra Lebedinzeva
Wife: Loubov Wochminzewa (m. 1931, separated 1956)
Wife: Barbara Perkins (m. 1958)
University: Novorossiya University, Odessa (1922-23)
University: University of Leningrad (1928)
University: University of Göttingen (summer 1928)
Fellow: Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen (1928-29)
Professor: Physics, George Washington University (1934-)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1954)
Professor: Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder (1956-68)
American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
Defected 1933
Naturalized US Citizen 1940
Russian Ancestry
Ukrainian Ancestry
Author of books:
Mr. Tomkins in Wonderland (1936)
One, Two, Three... Infinity (1947)
The Creation of the Universe (1952)
A Planet Called Earth (1963)
A Star Called the Sun (1964)
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