Igor Gamow
Engineer, Person
1936 –
Who is Igor Gamow?
Rustem Igor Gamow, son of physicist George Gamow, is a former microbiology professor at the University of Colorado and inventor. His best known inventions include the Gamow bag and the Shallow Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
Rustem Igor Gamow was born to George Gamow, the celebrated cosmologist and physicist, and ballet dancer Rho Gamow. Finishing high school at age 17, he joined the National Ballet Company. He held such jobs as breaking horses, delivering packages by motorcycle, and teaching karate before enrolling in the University of Colorado Boulder in 1958, where his father taught physics, microbiology and microphysics.
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