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QWhich of the following theoretical physicist responsible for the 'Big Bang Theory'?

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  • A Nicola Tesla ✔ ✖
  • B George Gamow ✔ ✖
  • C Albert Einstein ✔ ✖
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George Gamow, born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov, was a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaitre's Big Bang theory. He discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis and Big Bang nucleosynthesis (which he collectively called nucleocosmogenesis), and molecular genetics.

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