The influential book:
Robert Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (Penguin 1958).
This book, read as a 14 year old, made me a Communist and a Scientist. Although I never joined a party, or got a Ph.D.

Robert Oppenheimer became a hero to me.

One recent reviewer says Fuchs couldnt have become a spy because of the Hiroshima targeting, because he started years before the drop. This seems reasonable, but maybe a straw target. Fuchs became a spy, I seem to recall Jungk saying, because he felt the CCCP were USA allies & doing most of the anti-Hitler work, and deserved to share the knowledge.


I remember being very impressed by the discovery of the Omega minus particle in 1964, which Murray Gell-Man had predicted in 1962 based on group theory. (I had a sub to Scientific American). Sadly I never got the hang of Group Theory. Anyway Gell-Man never became a hero to me, maybe Richard P. Feynman did, later on.

Other Heros:
Linguists: Ivan Illich & Noam Chomsky
Theoretical Biologists: Bill Hamilton & Steven J Gould
Engineers: Bucky Fuller

All except Nim Chimpsky are dead, and all except Bucky are Left wingers I suppose...



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