George Gamow
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George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical exp
George Gamow
Staff of William Bragg's laboratory in 1931: W. H. Bragg (sitting, center): physicist A. Lebedev (leftmost), G. Gamow (rightmost)
Gamow's grave in Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, US
Vera Rubin
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Vera Florence Cooper Rubin was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studyi
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…University University of California, Berkeley University of Colorado Boulder Doctoral advisor Alexander Friedmann Doctoral students Ralph Asher Alpher Vera Rubin Signature George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Гео́ргий Анто́нович Га́мов; March 4 [O.S. February 20] 1904 – August…
Rubin with her collection of antique globes, c. 1985
Rubin in 1972, measuring spectra at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.
Rubin in the 1970s using Kitt Peak National Observatory's 36-inch telescope with Kent Ford's image tube spectrograph attached
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