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George Gamow

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Gamow was fantastic in his ideas. He was right, he was wrong. More often wrong than right. Always interesting; ... and when his idea was not wrong it was not only right, it was new.
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Edward Teller, in Some Personal Memories of George Gamow (1997) George Gamow Symposium; ASP Conference Series, Vol. 129, edited by Eamon Harper, W. C. Parke, and David Anderson, p.124

 
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