DISCOVERIES
Used Quantum tunneling to explain nuclear alpha decay (1928)
Pioneered the liquid-drop model in nuclear physics (1928)
Introducing the "Gamow" factor in stellar reaction rates and element formation (1938)
Big Bang Theory of the universe (1948)
Suggested first how the genetic code might be transcribed (1954)
http://www.gwu.edu/~physics/gwmagsb.htm
Fragmented DNA from radiation