orn in Odessa, Russia in 1904, George was raised by his mother and father who were both teachers, until he was nine-years-old when his mother died. Neither were science teachers, but they helped George to learn how to speak Russian and French. He also learned German and English.
Nineteen years old, and one year after the founding of the USSR, George went to the University of Leningrad to study physics. He and his friends would often discuss quantum mechanics which was cutting edge science at that time and was leading to the secrets of how the atom works. George earned his PhD through his own investigations into the strange behavior of the atomic nucleus. For three years he worked at the Theoretical Physics Institute which is part of the University …show more content…
Gamow also worked briefly at the Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory in England with Dr. Ernest Rutherford who is known for the gold-foil experiment which led to the discovery of the nucleus of the …show more content…
Gamow returned to the Soviet Union where he worked at the Radium Institute in Leningrad after being accepted as a member of the Academy of Sciences. Extensive research in radioactive decay was done in the USSR, and during this time he married another physicist, Lyubov Vokhmintseva. The newly married couple tried to leave the USSR several times to no avail because of the strict Soviet polices regarding leaving the country. Eventually they were permitted to go to a conference in Brussels. They would never return to the USSR. Eventually, in 1934, Dr. Gamow and his wife reached the United States, and he taught at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where they had a son born in 1935 and named him Igor. In the mid-fifties the family moved to California where Dr. Gamow taught at the University of California, Berkley. They were only there two years before they made their final move to Boulder, Colorado where Dr. Gamow taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Gamow, at fifty-two-years-old, divorced his wife and remarried. Ten years later he died when his liver
Nineteen years old, and one year after the founding of the USSR, George went to the University of Leningrad to study physics. He and his friends would often discuss quantum mechanics which was cutting edge science at that time and was leading to the secrets of how the atom works. George earned his PhD through his own investigations into the strange behavior of the atomic nucleus. For three years he worked at the Theoretical Physics Institute which is part of the University …show more content…
Gamow also worked briefly at the Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory in England with Dr. Ernest Rutherford who is known for the gold-foil experiment which led to the discovery of the nucleus of the …show more content…
Gamow returned to the Soviet Union where he worked at the Radium Institute in Leningrad after being accepted as a member of the Academy of Sciences. Extensive research in radioactive decay was done in the USSR, and during this time he married another physicist, Lyubov Vokhmintseva. The newly married couple tried to leave the USSR several times to no avail because of the strict Soviet polices regarding leaving the country. Eventually they were permitted to go to a conference in Brussels. They would never return to the USSR. Eventually, in 1934, Dr. Gamow and his wife reached the United States, and he taught at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where they had a son born in 1935 and named him Igor. In the mid-fifties the family moved to California where Dr. Gamow taught at the University of California, Berkley. They were only there two years before they made their final move to Boulder, Colorado where Dr. Gamow taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Gamow, at fifty-two-years-old, divorced his wife and remarried. Ten years later he died when his liver