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" It is this ability of Gamow to take complicated science and serve it to the reader in interesting bites that earned him a reputation as not only a brilliant scientist, but as a fine writer.
After all, "in order to understand the problem of life in general," he writes (234), "we must look for the solution in the structure and properties of the living cells." And he while delves deeply into the science of cell structure and cell division, he nonetheless returns to concepts that the lay person can understand; on 238-239, he is pointing out that all human cells "contain exactly the same number of chromosomes" but scientists have used "the little fruit fly" to help them understand "many things concerning the basic riddles of life." The cells of a pea plant have 14 chromosomes, corn cells have 20, the fruit fly has 8, and humans (including biologists) have 44. The reason for all his inclusion of corn, flies, peas, is that chromosomes are the drivers for cell division.
On page 90 Gamow describes the "greatest mistake of the physics of the nineteenth century" was the misunderstanding of the properties of light. Gamow proceeds to explain the updated theory of light based on the errors of the past; and he carefully explains (91) that previous rules ("...all common mechanical properties of various substances result from their atomic structure") make "no sense whatsoever" when applied to an "absolutely continuous substance" aw light ether is believed to be. But be warned, he continues, space is a "much more complicated thing" than geometry;...
That is a description of physics that a lay person, any first-year science student, can take a bite out of.
References
Gamow, George. One Two Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science. New York: Dover Publications, 1961.
Harper, Eamon. "Getting a Bang Out of Gamow." GW Magazine (Spring 2000): p. 14. Accessed at http://www2.gwu.edu/~physics/gwmageh.htm.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. "International
Partnership in Science: Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science." Accessed from http://www.unesco.org/science/ips/science_prizes/kalinga_science_prize.html.
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