Matter, Earth and Sky

by George Gamow

First Edition. 1958. (First Edition due For Prentice Hall - copyright page shows No Additional Printings only the number line 56575) Clothed boards in very good condition with some edge wear. Tears to DJ. Some of the tears taped in the back. Creasing to DJ. Price still shows on DJ. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Textbook Binding

About the author

George Gamow (Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡaməf:]; March 4 [O.S. February 20:] 1904 – August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a theoretical physicist and cosmologist born in the Russian Empire. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave background, nucleocosmogenesis and genetics.