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George Gamow became a naturalized American in 1940. He retained his formal association with GWU until 1956. During World War II, Gamow continued to teach physics at George Washington University and consulted for the US Navy. Gamow was interested in the processes of stellar evolution and the early history of the Solar System.
The lectures were established by Gamow's widow, Barbara Perkins Gamow, and the University's Department of Physics in 1971, to "promote public understanding of the nature and role of science." In 1975, Mrs. Gamow included in her will an endowment to maintain the lectures. The George Gamow lecturers have included 26 Nobel Laureates in the ...
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Barbara Merrihew Perkins was born in San Francisco, California, on May 22, 1905. [1]In 1938, she married J. R. de la Torre Bueno, scholar and editor, and divorced around 1943.
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[3]: 156 Above the workshop was a sign made by Barbara Perkins Gamow, who was the wife of George Gamow, a physicist, educator, and friend of Oppenheimer who had died just a year before the opening of the Exploratorium. [3]: 152, 157 "Here Is Being Created the Exploratorium a Community Museum Dedicated to Awareness" the inscription said.
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