My World Line : An Informal Autobiography
Language: English
Published by Viking, New York, 1970
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Books of the World, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.Books of the World
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Viking, April 1970. Hardcover. Good book in a Good jacket. Ex-library. Never checked out, but has all the usual library markings. xii + 178 pages. George Gamow, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist and an early advocate and developer of the Big Bang theory. was awarded the Kalinga Prize by UNESCO for his popularization of science. Born in Odessa, Russia, he was a colleague of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Peter Kapitza and Francis Crick. My World Line is an intimate portrait of an unorthodox, witty and warm man, whose free spirit and creative intuition endeared him to his colleagues in the scientific community.
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- Title
- My World Line : An Informal Autobiography
- Author
- George Gamow
- Publisher
- Viking, New York
- Publication year
- 1970
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670503762
- ISBN 13
- 9780670503766
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Biographies & Memoirs, Physics
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Books of the World
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