GAMOW,GEORGE - WORLD-LINE 1904-1933 - (ON THE OCCASION OF THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH)

In Gamow's style this paper might be named his ''half-biography''. It covers that very important part of his life beginning from his youth i n Odessa, his student years in Petrograd-Leningrad, and his several sc ientific trips abroad (Germany, Denmark, England). Special attention i s paid on Gamow's scientific works in Leningrad University and his rel ations with M Bronstein, D Ivanenko. and L Landau. Gamow's work on alp ha-decay is discussed in detail, including the question of the work's genesis and its future fate. The paper is based on new archive materia ls.