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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

George Gamow

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George Gamow
Age: 64 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 4
Died: 1968
Died: August 19
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Georgiy Antonovich Gamov
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