05096cpcaa2200925 a 4500 mm 79021899 DLC 20260227111655.0 cr ||||||||||| 790320|||||||||||| eng mm 79021899 ms 68002034 DLC DLC DLC dacs S lcmd Gamow, George, 1904-1968. George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers, 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975). 8,000 items. 30 containers plus 1 oversize. 12.8 linear feet. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. 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 transferred to Library of Congress. 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 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. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 Correspondence. Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984 Correspondence. Friedlander, Bernard Z. Correspondence. Friedman, Elizebeth, 1892-1980 Correspondence. Friedman, William F. (William Frederick), 1891-1969 Correspondence. Guérard, Albert Léon, 1880-1959 Correspondence. Herman, Robert, 1914- Correspondence. Holden, Raymond P. (Raymond Peckham), 1894-1972 Correspondence. Hooker, Edward Niles Correspondence. Hooker, Evelyn Caldwell Correspondence. Hynek, J. Allen (Joseph 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. (Nevill Francis), 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. Astronomers. itoamc Authors. itoamc Editors. itoamc Physicists. itoamc Translators. itoamc Gamow, Barbara, 1905-1976. George Gamow and Barbara Gamow papers. 1915-1975. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191.3 42216 42216