Dr. Gavin burst upon the world scene at the tender age of 24, when, as a young graduate student at the University of Northern South Dakota, he single-handedly made the series of breakthroughs that led to Lukewarm Fusion. As everyone knows, he freely gave his discovery to the world, charging no royalties for his patents. His fame grew after a best-selling book was written about him: Juuuust Right: The Lukewarm Fusion Story. Eventually he made a substantial fortune as the first scientist to have an endorsement contract with a major shoe manufacturer. He used his newfound wealth to found the largest private research center in the world, GavinCo labs, in Menlo Park, New Jersey, not far from the original site of the Edison Laboratories.

Since that time, Dr. Gavin has never been far from the public eye. Or perhaps one should say that his work has never been far from the public eye. Shy and retiring, he prefers to let his inventions speak for themselves (in some cases, quite literally). From his laboratories, staffed largely with robotic assistants of his own creation, flow a seemingly endless parade of new inventions, from the simple to the complex. Dr. Gavin is just as interested in new ways of removing unsightly stains from shoelace ends as he is in perfecting an interstellar space drive. There is quite literally not a single person on Earth who has not been affected in some way by a GavinCo invention.