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GAMOW
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• GAMOW (noun)
The noun GAMOW has 1 sense:
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)
Familiarity information: GAMOW used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Gamow; George Gamow
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
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