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Visiting Professorships:
University of Michigan
Ohio State University
University of California at Berkeley, and later at Santa Barbara.
In 1965 Gamow was elected an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College,
Cambridge, England.

Consultantships:
U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance
Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
Army Office of Operation Research
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Convair (San Diego, Calif.)

Professorships:
University of Leningrad (1931-33)
The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (1933-55),
including period of military consultantships.
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (1956 to date), including
faculty fellowship for lecturing in Japan, India, and Australia

Other Honours:
The Soviet Academy of Sciences (membership canceled on Gamow's leaving Russia)
The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (USA)
The International Astronautical Academy
The American Ass'n. for the Advancement of Science
The American Physical Society
The American Geophysical Union
Sigma Xi Honorary Society
The Washington Philosophical Society
The Washington Academy of Sciences
The Kalinga Price, awarded by UNESCO in 1956, for the popularization of science
Gamow's papers and correspondence are being collected by the Library of Congress
of the United States of America. Over 100 scientific and popular articles.


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