The USSR has been labeled the land of the yokel and Khamov. Quite right! And we have an example in this Soviet fellow named Gamow. Why, this working-class bumpkin, this dimwit, this Gyorgy Anton'ich called Geo., He went and caught up with the atom and kicked it about like a pro.

In: George Gamow, My World Line: An Informal Autobiography - Chapter 3 (p. 74)