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George Gamow, one of the world´s foremost scientists in the field of theoretical physics, was born in Odessa, Russia, on March 4, 1904. He received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Leningrad in 1929, and attended the University of Copenhagen as a Fellow of the Theoretical Physics Institute in 1928 and 1929. In 1929–1930 he was a Fellow of Rockefellow Foundation at Cambridge, England, and returned to the University of Copenhagen on a fellowship again from 1930–1931. He was a professor at the University of Leningrad from 1931 to 1933, and the following year was a Fellow of Pierre Curie Institute in Paris. From 1934 to 1956 he was a professor of theoretical physics at George Washington University. At present, Dr. Gamow is professor of physics at the University of Colorado.