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WorksheetsDiS George Gamow
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
George Gamow was born in
Vienna
Odessa
Edinburgh
Prague
Gamow's ________________ model of atomic nuclei led to the theory of nuclear fission and fusion.
Plum Pudding
Quantum Tunneling
Liquid Drop
Relativity
When Gamow and his wife defected the USSR, Marie Curie and other physicists helped them.
true
false
Quantum tunneling explained
alpha decay
beta decay
gamma decay
nuclear fission and fusion
Gamow worked with ___________________ on beta decay.
Edward Teller
Edwin Hubble
Edward Witten
Edmond Becquerel
Gamow and Mario Schoenberg collaborated on the _____________________ which may have a role in the cooling of white dwarfs and neutron stars.
Alpha Beta Gamma
Liquid Drop
Quantum Tunneling
Urca process
George Gamow published _________________with Ralph Alpher on April 1, 1948.
On the Origin of Species
The Origin of Chemical Elements
Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
Why was Gamow and Alpher's paper known as the Alpha Beta Gamma paper?
They discussed alpha, beta, and gamma decay.
It was published in a journal of that name.
Gamow added Hans Bethe to the paper as a joke to be like the first three Greek letters (Alpher, Bethe, Gamow).
No one knows why
What did Gamow study after the discovery of the structure of DNA?
RNA structure
Proteins that bind DNA
The order of the DNA bases for the synthesis of protein.
The origin of DNA on our planet.
George Gamow wrote a series of books with the title character called
Mr. Tompkins
Dr. Emmett Brown
Sheldon Cooper
Charles Xavier
