New Book about 'Galloping Gamows' Shows Relationship between Physics and Cowboys
Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) August 23, 2007 -- In the new, unique biography, The Galloping Gamows, filmmaker and author Peter Garrity tells the story of George and Igor Gamow, a father-son team of revolutionary scientists. A contemporary of Niels Bohr and Russian scientist Alexander Friedman, George Gamow is known as the originator of the Big Bang Theory of the Universe. His son, Igor, has used his wide range of interests--from cowboys to ballet--as an unconventional inventor and a professor of bioengineering at the University of Colorado.
After George Gamow and his wife escape from Russia, a new world of opportunity opens up for the scientist, and later his son, Igor. Interweaving the tangled history of Russia into the Gamow legacy, the author delves into the complexity of the father-son relationship by examining how much of Igor's career decisions and scientific genius were influenced by his father, and what were simply the product of natural predisposition. The result of the intermingling talents is a kind of science that is almost artistic in its variety, uniqueness, and splendor.
Punctuated with stunning black and white photographs, this dual biography is, above all, the story of a father and son who shot for the moon and reached the stars. The Galloping Gamows bears witness to the creative process at work in the lives of two ingenious mavericks.
For more information or to request a free review copy, please contact the author garrity11 @ gmail.com. The Galloping Gamows is available for sale online at Amazon.com, Borders.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Author Peter Garrity and Igor Gamow met at a social gathering and discovered a shared interest in filmmaking. Out of this meeting came the documentary and book, The Galloping Gamows, which is now being produced and published as an autobiographical study of the father-son relationship between two exceptional scientists.
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