Mark Reynolds’s Reviews > The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom > Status Update

Based on Gamow's - yet unpublished - idea concerning the application action of quantum mechanics to radioactive alpha decay, Bohr told Gamow "My secretary told me that you have only enough money to stay here for a day. If I arrange for you a Carlsberg Fellowship at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, would you stay for one year?"