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Igor Gamow

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Rustem Igor Gamow (November 4, 1935 – April 15, 2021)<ref>Gamow, George: My World Line: An Informal Autobiography, The Viking Press, New York, 1970, page 106.</ref> was a microbiology professor at the University of Colorado and inventor. His best known inventions included the Gamow bag and the Shallow Underwater Breathing Apparatus. He was fired from CU in 2004 following sexual harassment and assault charges.<ref name="9news">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and educationEdit

Gamow was born in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., the son of physicists George Gamow and Lyubov Vokhmintseva "Rho" Gamow, both emigrants from the Soviet Union. He finished high school at age 17, and then joined the National Ballet Company.Template:Cn He worked breaking horses, delivering packages by motorcycle, and teaching karate before enrolling at the University of Colorado in 1958, where his father taught.Template:Cn Igor Gamow received a B.A. and M.S. in biology, and a Ph.D. in biophysics, all at University of Colorado.Template:Cn

CareerEdit

Gamow worked on Phycomyces blakesleeanus during postdoctoral research under Max Delbrück at Caltech. At CU-Boulder, he did Phycomyces research for over twenty years, mainly on the avoidance and anemotropic responses, helical growth, and cell-wall mechanical properties. He also studied the infrared-detectors of the Boa constrictor.

An avid outdoorsman, Gamow developed a number of inventions for safety in outdoor activities. His first important one, patented in 1990, was the Gamow bag enabling mountain climbers to avoid altitude sickness by raising the surrounding pressure. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first expedition leader to summit Mount Everest, wrote him in congratulation.Template:Cn Another was the Shallow Underwater Breathing Apparatus ("SUBA"), a pressurized snorkel system permitting swimmers to breathe easily as deep as ten feet under water.

Gamow also worked in bionics, on an orthopedic knee brace that stores energy within a spring from the hamstring and redirects it to the quadriceps.Template:Cn

PatentsEdit

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University of Colorado terminationEdit

In 2002, a former assistant of Gamow, filed a lawsuit against the University of Colorado in which it alleged sexual harassment and sexual assault of seven women. After the lawsuit was filed, the university began to take steps to terminate Gamow. In 2004, the CU Board of Regents unanimously upheld the recommendation to dismiss Gamow for "moral turpitude". Gamow filed a lawsuit against CU in an attempt to be reinstated.<ref name="9news"/>

In May 2006, the university lost a lawsuit that had been filed by Gamow's former assistant and was ordered to pay her $285,000 plus attorney's fees.Template:Cn

In September 2011, Gamow released an open letter addressing some misconceptions about events leading to his termination from the University of Colorado.<ref>[1]</ref>

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