George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers, (Record no. 42216)
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| NUCMC control number | ms 68002034 |
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| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | S |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gamow, George, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1904-1968. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1915-1975 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1950-1975). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 8,000 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 30 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
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| Type of unit | oversize. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 12.8 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 506 ## - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, drafts of speeches, articles, and books, and other papers relating principally to Gamow's career as an astronomer and physicist and to his role as a popularizer of science. Subjects include astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, genetic coding, nuclear energy, nuclei, number theory, quasars, RNA coding, and theoretical physics. Correspondents include Ralph Alpher, Sir John Cockcroft, Pascal Covici, Charles Louis Critchfield, P.A.M. Dirac, William F. and Elizebeth Friedman, Robert Herman, J. Allen Hynek, Ronald Mansbridge, Sir N.F. Mott, Ronald Searle, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Edward Teller, and Martynas Yčas. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Papers of Barbara Gamow consist chiefly of personal correspondence and relate in part to her literary interests and work in publishing. Her correspondents include Sybille Bedford, Stan Brakhage, James Richard Broughton, E.E. Cummings, Bernard Z. Friedlander, Albert Léon Guérard, Raymond P. Holden, Edward Niles and Evelyn Caldwell Hooker, Garner and Frances Theiss James, Eda Lord, Marion Morehouse, Charles Norman, and Morgan Shepard (pseud. John Martin). |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Photographs, phonograph records, and tapes |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | George Gamow: physicist, astronomer, and author. Born Georgii Antonovič Gamov. Barbara Merrihew Perkins: editor and translator. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Alpher, Ralph |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bedford, Sybille, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1911-2006 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Brakhage, Stan |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Broughton, James, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1913-1999 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cockcroft, John, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name | Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1897-1967 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Covici, Pascal, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1885-1964 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Critchfield, Charles Louis, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1910- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cummings, E. E. |
| Fuller form of name | (Edward Estlin), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1894-1962 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dirac, P. A. M. |
| Fuller form of name | (Paul Adrien Maurice), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1902-1984 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Friedlander, Bernard Z. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Friedman, Elizebeth, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1892-1980 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Friedman, William F. |
| Fuller form of name | (William Frederick), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1891-1969 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Guérard, Albert Léon, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1880-1959 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Herman, Robert, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1914- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Holden, Raymond P. |
| Fuller form of name | (Raymond Peckham), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1894-1972 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hooker, Edward Niles |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hooker, Evelyn Caldwell |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hynek, J. Allen |
| Fuller form of name | (Joseph Allen), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1910- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | James, Frances Theiss |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | James, Garner |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lord, Eda |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mansbridge, Ronald |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Martin, John, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1865-1947 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Morehouse, Marion, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1906-1969 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mott, N. F. |
| Fuller form of name | (Nevill Francis), |
| Titles and other words associated with a name | Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1905- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Norman, Charles, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1904- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Searle, Ronald, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1920-2011 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Szent-Györgyi, Albert, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1893-1986 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Teller, Edward, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1908-2003 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Yčas, Martynas, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1917- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Astronomy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Astrophysics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cell nuclei. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cosmology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Genetics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nuclear energy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Number theory. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Physics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Publishers and publishing. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Quasars. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | RNA. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Astronomers. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Authors. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Editors. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Physicists. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Translators. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gamow, Barbara, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1905-1976. |
| Title of a work | George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers. |
| Date of a work | 1915-1975. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191.3</a> |
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