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My World Line : An Informal Autobiography Hardcover – April 28, 1970

by George Gamow (Author)

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My World Line : An Informal Autobiography

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Hardcover: 178 pages
Publisher: Viking; First edition (April 28, 1970)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670503762
ISBN-13: 978-0670503766
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 5.9 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Average Customer Review: 9 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,616,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Great life, great book!

ByIonuton December 28, 2014

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What a wonderful book on the life of a giant! Uplifting, inspiring, funny, informative. Gamow writes with an unparalleled ease, it is like he is talking with me personally. Very generous, maybe even too shy about his accomplishments. But others have given him the credit he deserves, see Stan Ulam's biography (highly recommended as well!).

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ByAmazon Customeron September 6, 2015

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Interesting book!

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Gamow at it's best

ByVladimir Shiltsevon December 23, 2009

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Very interesting book... especially for scientists and for Russians.
I was amazed to know that George was a colonel of Soviet Army.
Surely, his book and way of presentation is on par with joyful style of Richard Feynman. I wish it is translated to Russian and published in Russia.
(I had difficulty to translate some of his verses which were originally
in Russian but translated for English speaking readers )

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ByKCWizardon September 4, 2016

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Very informative book

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ByGrant Cairnson June 5, 2017

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I have loved Gamow since reading Mr Tompkins and some of his other books as a youngster. But his autobiography is disappointing. Gamow comes across as vaguely likable, but the book is extremely thin, with very little detail about anything, including Gamow’s character.

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George Who? ...Gamow, that's who!

ByRand Higbeeon April 5, 2000

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It's a shame this book is out of print. And it's a shame that so few people today recognize the name George Gamow.
For those of you who don't, George Gamow was sort of the Carl Sagan of the 1950s. He wrote many books on Physics aimed at a lay audience, all of which are still entertaining today (although somewhat out of date.)
But Gamow was much more than just a popularizer of science. He made many important contributions to various areas of science, covering such diverse topics as the Big Bang Theory and DNA.
In "My World Line..." Gamow writes of his early life in Russia, and how he came to realize that in order to fully pursue his science he would have to escape that country. (One such attempt to flee almost ended in his death.) Of course he eventually does leave Russia, hooks up with Niels Bohr in Denmark, and...
But to say anymore would be telling. If you enjoy reading about the history of science, this is one book you truly want to track down. George Gamow was quite a guy.

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Gamow the ever entertaining scientist

BySumimuson July 19, 2006

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I was lucky to find a hardcover edition of this little book in a used bookstore in Palo Alto.

This book is instructive and entertaining -- you do not get bored by reading it. At some point you are surprised by the hardship that he had to go through. It is full of anectodes about his attempted escape from the Soviet Union by kayak, some peculiar details about his first encounter with Rutherford and Niels Bohr, etc. This book is written in a lively style rarely done by biographers.

This is too bad he never got the Nobel Prize -- I believe he would have written quite an entertaining speech.

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