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This brief preface explains why the editorial board of the journal Yadernaya Fizika (Physics o f Atomic Nuclei) decided to reprint the article of the three authors, which was published in 1928 and which is hardly accessible to the present-day reader; tells briefly the history of its creation; and traces, from 1881 to 2001, the fate of the questions discussed in it and the impact of this article on modern fundamental physics.
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Translated from Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 65, No. 7, 2002, pp. 1403–1405.
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Okun, L.B. On the article of G. Gamow, D. Ivanenko, and L. Landau “World Constants and Limiting Transition”. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 65, 1370–1372 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1495649
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