Gamow

That monumental discovery sparked decades of epic debates about the vastness and origins of the universe, and they involved a clash of titans, the Russian-American nuclear physicist George Gamow and the British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle.

Like Hoyle, Gamow often relied on his gut feelings to make scientific predictions.

Faced with this news, Einstein decided a couple of years later to remove the cosmological constant from his equations, calling it “my biggest blunder,” according to physicist George Gamow.

They were "seeing" the first photons–the most ancient light in the universe– though time and distance had converted them to microwaves, just as Gamow had predicted.

For the Gamow Bag to function properly, an attendant must continuously inject fresh air into the chamber with a foot pump.