1. United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968); [syn: Gamow, George Gamow]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
George Gamow
n 1: United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a
proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in
radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA
(1904-1968) [syn: Gamow, George Gamow]