{"id":2744,"date":"2019-01-27T22:51:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T22:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2025-02-25T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:29:58","slug":"gamowaward2019_nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/news\/gamowaward2019_nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 George Gamow Prize &#8211; nominations open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Nominations are accepted till July 1, 2019! <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/app\/uploads\/2018\/05\/george-gamow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1328\" src=\"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/app\/uploads\/2018\/05\/george-gamow-1-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/george-gamow-1-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/george-gamow-1-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/george-gamow-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Russian-American Science Association (RASA-America) is pleased to announce that it plans to award two George Gamow Prizes in 2019. The Prizes are awarded since 2015 to members of the Russian-speaking science diaspora for outstanding contributions to science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Gamow\">George Gamow<\/a> is a Soviet and American physicist and popular educator. He made pioneering contributions to the theory of alpha-decay, Big Bang theory and application of nuclear physics to evolution of stars. He also made a notable contribution to biology by being the first to clearly formulate the genetic code problem. He is well-known for his popular books where he clearly and simply described complex modern science concepts through an example of his hero, Mr. Tompkins. Gamow was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of USSR and a member of the National Academy Sciences of USA.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations should be sent prior to<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> July 1, 2019<\/span><\/strong>, to <a href=\"mailto:ksonin@uchicago.edu\">ksonin@uchicago.edu<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/harris.uchicago.edu\/directory\/konstantin-sonin\">Konstantin Sonin<\/a>). Any field of science is eligible. The list of prior awardees and additional information about prize award processes are presented\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/george-gamow-award\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominations are accepted till July 1, 2019! Russian-American Science Association (RASA-America) is pleased to announce that it plans to award two George Gamow Prizes in 2019. The Prizes are awarded since 2015 to members&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ru","en"],"languages":{"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}