To honor Professor Gamow, the George Gamow Memorial Lectures were initiated in 1971 by the Department of Physics and his widow, Barbara Gamow. When Mrs. Gamow died in December 1975, she left in her ...

The Saturday Physics Series consists of five to seven scheduled talks oriented toward adults and high school students. Lectures occur on specific Saturdays afternoons throughout ... Material is aimed ...

THE theory of atomic structure has, during the past few years, reached a stage of sufficient success and stability for it to be possible to describe many of its features in a simple manner.

Along the way the reader encounters several topics requiring more advanced mathematics than found in many discussions of the subject, making for a fascinating course in how mathematics and physics ...