Igor Gamow
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Microbiologist and american Inventor
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Microbiology
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Why Is Igor Gamow Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rustem Igor Gamow 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.
Igor Gamow's Published Works
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Published Works
- Snake Infrared Receptors: Thermal or Photochemical Mechanism? (1971) (37)
- The problem of handedness reversal during the spiral growth of Phycomyces. (1974) (30)
- The analysis of spiral growth in phycomyces using a novel optical method. (1974) (27)
- The Infrared Receptors of Snakes (1973) (24)
- The Avoidance Response in Phycomyces (1971) (23)
- Phycomyces: a change in mechanical properties after a light stimulus. (1975) (23)
- Temperature effects on spontaneous and evoked neural activity in the garter snake. (1971) (22)
- Methods of gas-balance control to be used with a portable hyperbaric chamber in the treatment of high altitude illness (1990) (18)
- Avoidance and rheotropic responses in phycomyces. Evidence for an 'avoidance gas" mechanism (1982) (15)
- Local metabolic autonomy in phycomyces sporangiophores. (1969) (14)
- Thermodynamic Treatment of Bacteriophage T4B Adsorption Kinetics (1969) (14)
- Analysis of chemotaxis in white blood cells. (1971) (12)
- Phycomyces: Modification of Spiral Growth after Mechanical Conditioning of the Cell Wall (1979) (12)
- An Increase in Mechanical Extensibility during the Period of Light-stimulated Growth. (1976) (12)
- Phycomyces: growth responses of the sporangium. (1972) (11)
- Fiber-composite Model for Helical Growth in the Phycomyces Cell Wall (1992) (10)
- A self-contained life support system designed for use with a portable hyperbaric chamber. (1989) (10)
- Chemically Induced Cofactor Requirement for Bacteriophage T4D (1968) (9)
- Phycomyces: irregular growth patterns in stage IVb sporangiophores (1981) (9)
- Phycomyces: detailed analysis of the anemogeotropic response (1984) (8)
- Phycomyces: discovery of the aiming error in the avoidance response. (1982) (7)
- What engineers can learn from nature (1972) (6)
- Phycomyces: Mechanical Analysis of the Living Cell Wall (1980) (6)
- Spirals in nature (1979) (6)
- Phycomyces: fine structure analysis of the growing zone. (1986) (5)
- Phycomyces: Control of Transpiration and the Anemotropic Reversal (1990) (4)
- Mass transfer from Phycomyces in the avoidance and anemotropic responses: Numerical modeling (1983) (4)
- Intracellular recordings from phycomyces. (1975) (3)
- Phycomyces: an increase in mechanical extensibility after a humidified wind stimulus. (1984) (3)
- An analysis of heat receptors by means of microwave radiation. (1972) (1)
- Phycomyces: MODIFICATION OF LIGHT-INDUCED SPIRAL GROWTH AFTER MECHANICAL CONDITIONING OF THE CELL WALL. (1980) (1)
- Hawaii high altitude study: high altitude sleeping system. (2004) (1)
- Local Metabolic Autonomy in Phycomyces Sporangiophores1 (0)
- Temperature-induced reversals of rotation in phycomyces. (1988) (0)
- Hyperbaric pressure chamber. (1990) (0)
- A human breathing simulator designed to test the life support system of a hyperbaric tent. (1990) (0)
- Stochastic Growth Patterns Generated byPhycomycesSporangiophores (1983) (0)
- Phycomyces: distribution of growth velocities in the growing zone. (1977) (0)
- The many facets of bioengineering. (1984) (0)
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