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Mr. Tompkins Gets Serious: The Essential George Gamow, the Masterpiece Science Edition Hardback - 2005

by George Gamow; Robert Oerter (Editor); Foreword by R. Igor Gamow

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From what happens inside the atom to how things work on larger scales in the universe, readers can rely on George Gamow's authority and be delighted by his sheer joy of physics. Gamow's breadth of knowledge was astounding, he made major contributions to advances in both cosmology and molecular biology. His elucidation of radioactivity, the Big Bang theory, and even how the genetic code might be transcribed years before DNA was discovered makes him one of the 20th century's greatest scientists. Gamow, the creator of the famous MR. TOMPKINS series, offers here his thoughts on how the atom works, the basic laws of chemistry, radioactivity, electromagnetism, the nature of light, and how scientists understand space, time, and motion. These writings were collected from his exhaustive 1958 volume on the physical sciences Matter, Earth and Sky, now out of print and not available in any other collection.

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Since time immemorial man has looked with both admiration and fear at the world into which he was born.

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  • Title Mr. Tompkins Gets Serious: The Essential George Gamow, the Masterpiece Science Edition
  • Author George Gamow; Robert Oerter (Editor); Foreword by R. Igor Gamow
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 399
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pi Press, New York
  • Publication date November 3, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780131872912 / 0131872915
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.32 x 5.8 x 1.35 in (21.13 x 14.73 x 3.43 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Physics, Matter - Properties
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005025070
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530
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