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Enter Stanton Friedman, a former itinerant nuclear physicist now living in New Brunswick, Canada, who has long been, in his words, "a clear-cut, unambiguous UFOlogist." In 1978, while waiting in a Baton Rouge, La., television station for an interview, Friedman was told that Jesse Marcel, long retired from the Air Force and living nearby, had once handled the wreckage of a UFO. After quizzing Marcel, who still believed the debris he retrieved was extraterrestrial, Friedman reviewed the old stories about Roswell, painstakingly sought out and interviewed other witnesses, and came to a dramatic conclusion: there had been a cover...
DIED. ROBERT SERBER, 88, unapologetic nuclear physicist whose briefing to an elite corps of scientists at Los Alamos, N.M., in 1943 laid the groundwork for atomic destruction; in New York City...
DIED. MANFRED VON ARDENNE, 90, Germany's scientific jack-of-all-trades; in Dresden. The "Red Baron" vowed to switch fields each decade to keep his intellect sharp. As a physicist, he helped the Soviets build the atom bomb...
John's father, Jacob Appelbaum, was a physicist in a government laboratory, and his mother toured the nation as a professional ballerina...
Selby is the only daughter of a British physicist who immigrated to the United States during the "brain drain" of the 1930s. Her parents met at the University of London, where her mother played the role of Cecily in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and her father was a stage manager for the same play...