Labels:text | font | document | screenshot | number | black and white OCR: 1904 Born Georgy Antonovich Gamov on March 4 in Odessa in the Ukraine (where he received his early education). He becomes interested in astronomy after receiving a telescope on his 13 th birthday. 1922 Studies optics and cosmology at the University of Leningrad, Russia. 1928 Obtains a PhD and then goes on to work at the University of Göttingen in Germany, the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and the University of Cambridge in England. 1931 Appointed Master of Research at the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. 1933 Defects from the communist Soviet Union while attending a conference in Brussels. 1934 Becomes Professor of Physics at the George Washington University, Washington State, USA 1936 Publishes his first popular-science novel Mr Tomkins in Wonderland. After the Second World War (1 ...
