George Gamow

George Gamow

Russian-born American physicist
4 March 1904 — 19 August 1968

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It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab whenever he merely stepped across the threshold.

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