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DiS George Gamow

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

George Gamow was born in

a)

Vienna

b)

Odessa

c)

Edinburgh

d)

Prague

2.

Gamow's ________________ model of atomic nuclei led to the theory of nuclear fission and fusion.

a)

Plum Pudding

b)

Quantum Tunneling

c)

Liquid Drop

d)

Relativity

3.

When Gamow and his wife defected the USSR, Marie Curie and other physicists helped them.

a)

true

b)

false

4.

Quantum tunneling explained

a)

alpha decay

b)

beta decay

c)

gamma decay

d)

nuclear fission and fusion

5.

Gamow worked with ___________________ on beta decay.

a)

Edward Teller

b)

Edwin Hubble

c)

Edward Witten

d)

Edmond Becquerel

6.

Gamow and Mario Schoenberg collaborated on the _____________________ which may have a role in the cooling of white dwarfs and neutron stars.

a)

Alpha Beta Gamma

b)

Liquid Drop

c)

Quantum Tunneling

d)

Urca process

7.

George Gamow published _________________with Ralph Alpher on April 1, 1948.

a)

On the Origin of Species

b)

The Origin of Chemical Elements

c)

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids

d)

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

8.

Why was Gamow and Alpher's paper known as the Alpha Beta Gamma paper?

a)

They discussed alpha, beta, and gamma decay.

b)

It was published in a journal of that name.

c)

Gamow added Hans Bethe to the paper as a joke to be like the first three Greek letters (Alpher, Bethe, Gamow).

d)

No one knows why

9.

What did Gamow study after the discovery of the structure of DNA?

a)

RNA structure

b)

Proteins that bind DNA

c)

The order of the DNA bases for the synthesis of protein.

d)

The origin of DNA on our planet.

10.

George Gamow wrote a series of books with the title character called

a)

Mr. Tompkins

b)

Dr. Emmett Brown

c)

Sheldon Cooper

d)

Charles Xavier