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Gamow was born in the city of Odessa, Russian Empire ( now in Ukraine ) to mixed Russian-Ukrainian parents.
His father taught Russian language and literature in high school, and his mother taught geography and history at a school for girls.
In addition to Russian, Gamow learned to speak some French from his mother, and German from a tutor.
Gamow did not learn fluent English until his college years and later.
Most of his early publications were in German or Russian, but he later switched to writing in English for both technical papers and for the lay audience.
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