When1: 1937
When2: 1966
Who: George Gamow [Gamow, George]
What: astronomer
Where: USA
works\ Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland [1937]; One Two Three ... Infinity [1950]; Thirty Years That Shook Physics [1966]
Detail: He lived 1904 to 1968, predicted microwave background radiation [1948], and calculated helium and lithium production from hydrogen just after universe origin. He expanded Big-Bang theory, with Ralph Alpher, Robert Hermann, and James Follin.
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