GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Who is the english physicist responsible for the “Big Bang Theory"? Explanation: George Gamow. Gamow, who died in 1968, was a physicist, who published “Thirty Years that Shook Physics”.

Detailed explanation-2: -George Gamow (March 4, 1904 – August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Ukrainian: , Russian: ), was a Russian-born Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître’s Big Bang theory.

Detailed explanation-3: -George Gamow’s fame as a physicist began with his theory that explained the radioactive alpha particle decay of atomic nuclei. In his cosmological studies, he is known for the “big bang” theory of the origin of the universe, and in 1954 his studies in biology led him to suggest that the genetic code was a triplet code.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1954 Gamow’s scientific interests grew to encompass biochemistry. He proposed the concept of a genetic code and maintained that the code was determined by the order of recurring triplets of nucleotides, the basic components of DNA.