Bruce Lagasse
2009-10-16 11:39:05
I will add my enthusiastic endorsement for “One, Two, Three, Infinity”; I also read it as a teenager and I still have a tattered copy in my library. Gamow was clearly the model for the character of Dr. Kovorski in James Blish’ novel “V-O-R”.
Another miscarriage of justice came with the ignoring of Fred Hoyle in the award for the “B-squared-FH” theory of stellar creation of elements, even though his colleague Fowler was given the award. Ironically, one prominent speculation for leaving Hoyle out in the cold was his strong criticism of the Nobel Committee for ignoring Jocelyn Bell as the true discoverer of the pulsar.
