Gamow Dies; Nuclear and Astrophysicist Was Popular Writer
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George Gamow, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Colorado, died 20 Aug. after a long illness. A resident of the US since 1934 and a citizen since 1940, he was born in Odessa, Russia on 4 March 1904. He was educated in the Normal School in Odessa and at the University of Leningrad, where he received his PhD in 1928.