Quo Fuit places 10 dated presences for George Gamow across 10 places, from 1925 to 1968.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; – August 19, 1968) was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where George Gamow was documented, and when
1925year
Saint Petersburgattested“Gamow studied under Alexander Friedmann in Leningrad, until Friedmann's early death in 1925, which required him to change dissertation advisors.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1928 to 1931period
Cavendish Laboratoryattested“He then worked at the Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Copenhagen from 1928 to 1931, with a break to work with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1928 to 1931period
Niels Bohr Instituteattested“He then worked at the Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Copenhagen from 1928 to 1931, with a break to work with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1928 to 1931period
Cambridgeattested“He then worked at the Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Copenhagen from 1928 to 1931, with a break to work with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1933year
Brusselsattested“In 1933, Gamow was suddenly granted permission to attend the 7th Solvay Conference on physics, in Brussels.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1934year
Londonattested“He became a professor at George Washington University (GWU) in 1934 and recruited physicist Edward Teller from London to join him at GWU.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1934 to 1954period
University of California, Berkeleyattested“Gamow worked at George Washington University from 1934 until 1954, when he became a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1956year
University of Colorado Boulderattested“In 1956, he moved to the University of Colorado Boulder, where he remained for the rest of his career.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1956year
University of Coloradoattested“In 1956, he moved to the University of Colorado Boulder, where he remained for the rest of his career.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
19 August 1968exact date
Boulder, Coloradoattested“On August 19, 1968, Gamow died at age 64 in Boulder, Colorado, and was buried there in Green Mountain Cemetery.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
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1922 to 1929period
Odessamentioned“He was educated at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics in Odessa (1922–23) and at the University of Leningrad (1923–1929).”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1922 to 1929period
Odessa Universitymentioned“He was educated at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics in Odessa (1922–23) and at the University of Leningrad (1923–1929).”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1922 to 1929period
Saint Petersburg State Universitymentioned“He was educated at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics in Odessa (1922–23) and at the University of Leningrad (1923–1929).”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1928year
Göttingenmentioned“By 1928, Gamow in Göttingen had solved the theory of the alpha decay of a nucleus via tunnelling, with mathematical help from Nikolai Kochin.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1931 to 1933period
Saint Petersburgmentioned“During the period 1931–1933, Gamow worked in the Physical Department of the Radium Institute in Leningrad headed by Vitaly Khlopin.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1931year
Sovietmentioned“Also in 1931, he married Lyubov Vokhmintseva (), another physicist in the Soviet Union, whom he nicknamed "Rho" after the Greek letter.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1932year
Turkeymentioned“Gamow later said that his first two attempts to defect with his wife were in 1932 and involved trying to kayak: first a planned 250-kilometer paddle over the Black Sea to Turkey, and another attempt from Murmansk to Norway.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1932year
Murmanskmentioned“Gamow later said that his first two attempts to defect with his wife were in 1932 and involved trying to kayak: first a planned 250-kilometer paddle over the Black Sea to Turkey, and another attempt from Murmansk to Norway.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1932year
Norwaymentioned“Gamow later said that his first two attempts to defect with his wife were in 1932 and involved trying to kayak: first a planned 250-kilometer paddle over the Black Sea to Turkey, and another attempt from Murmansk to Norway.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
1959year
University of Coloradomentioned“In 1959, Gamow, Hans Bethe, and Victor Weisskopf publicly supported the re-entry of Frank Oppenheimer into teaching college physics at the University of Colorado, as the Red Scare began to fade (J.”source: Wikipedia: George Gamow
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