摘要: George Gamow burst upon the European community of physicists like a meteor from outer space. The origin his trajectory was distant Leningrad; point impact Gottingen;. time mid-June 1928. impression made has been recorded by Leon Rosenfeld. “I shall never forget,” Rosenfeld recalled, “the first he appeared in Gottingen — how could anyone who ever met forget meeting with him Slav giant, fair haired and speaking very picturesque German; fact everything, even physics.”1 had learned German private tutor as youth Odessa result, later that “I’m terribly poor inder,die,das, my grammar is horrible, but pronunciation good.”2