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When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory – The New York Times
In “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern offers a dual biography of George Gamow and Fred Hoyle, two midcentury physicists who…
Gamow and Hoyle make for a challenging joint biography, Halpern acknowledges, in part because their parallel stories so rarely intersected. They had only one significant in-person meeting, in the summer of 1956 in La Jolla, Calif., where Gamow had briefly…
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