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George Gamow Memorial Lectures

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The George Gamow Memorial Lectures are an annual series of lectures at the University of Colorado Boulder, named in honor of the physicist and science popularizer George Gamow, author of One Two Three... Infinity and the Mr Tompkins series.[1]

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The lectures were established by Gamow's widow, Barbara Perkins Gamow, and the University's Department of Physics in 1971, to "promote public understanding of the nature and role of science." In 1975, Mrs. Gamow included in her will an endowment to maintain the lectures. The George Gamow lecturers have included 27 Nobel Laureates in the sciences. Lectures are held at the university's Macky Auditorium, and are free and open to the public.[2]

Frances Arnold, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2018, was to lecture on “Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life”[3] but her lecture was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] In 2024, the Lectures resumed with Dr. Andrea Ghez, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2020.

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