Igor Gamow, Inventor of the 'Gamow Bag' Portable Hyperbaric Chamber, Has Died

mnemotronic writes: Igor Gamow, inventor of the 'Gamow bag,' a portable hyperbaric chamber for treatment of altitude or Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), has died. He is credited or co-credited with other inventions, including prosthetics for amputees. His career at the University of Colorado in Boulder was marred by accusations from multiple sources of sexual predation. He is one of only three tenured professors ever to be fired by CU Boulder since its founding in 1876.

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