George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers, 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975).
- 8,000 items. 30 1 containers plus oversize. 12.8 linear feet.
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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. 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).
Photographs, phonograph records, and tapes Library of Congress. transferred to
George Gamow: physicist, astronomer, and author. Born Georgii Antonovič Gamov. Barbara Merrihew Perkins: editor and translator.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191
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Alpher, Ralph--Correspondence. Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006 --Correspondence. Brakhage, Stan--Correspondence. Broughton, James, 1913-1999 --Correspondence. Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967 --Correspondence. Covici, Pascal, 1885-1964 --Correspondence. Critchfield, Charles Louis, 1910- --Correspondence. Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962 --Correspondence. Dirac, P. A. M. 1902-1984 --Correspondence. Friedlander, Bernard Z.--Correspondence. Friedman, Elizebeth, 1892-1980 --Correspondence. Friedman, William F. 1891-1969 --Correspondence. Guérard, Albert Léon, 1880-1959 --Correspondence. Herman, Robert, 1914- --Correspondence. Holden, Raymond P. 1894-1972 --Correspondence. Hooker, Edward Niles--Correspondence. Hooker, Evelyn Caldwell--Correspondence. Hynek, J. Allen 1910- --Correspondence. James, Frances Theiss--Correspondence. James, Garner--Correspondence. Lord, Eda--Correspondence. Mansbridge, Ronald--Correspondence. Martin, John, 1865-1947 --Correspondence. Morehouse, Marion, 1906-1969 --Correspondence. Mott, N. F. Sir, 1905- --Correspondence. Norman, Charles, 1904- --Correspondence. Searle, Ronald, 1920-2011 --Correspondence. Szent-Györgyi, Albert, 1893-1986 --Correspondence. Teller, Edward, 1908-2003 --Correspondence. Yčas, Martynas, 1917- --Correspondence.
Astronomy. Astrophysics. Cell nuclei. Cosmology. Genetics. Literature. Nuclear energy. Number theory. Physics. Publishers and publishing. Quasars. RNA. Science--History--20th century.