[Hugh R]

When I was a kid in the early 60s, my Dad was a professor of Nuclear Engineering at MIT. I didn't realize it at the time, but he had lots of his MIT professors over for BBQs. Charles Townsend, Harold Edgerton, both Nobel prize winners, one for the laser, the other for high speed strobes. Also had a few Russians over on a scientific peacekeeping thing including Yuri Gagarin, first man in space. I didn't realize the significance because I was like 8 years old.