[PGR88]

In August 1970 he had nearly finished his PhD thesis when Sterling Hall, which houses the Wisconsin Department of Astronomy, was severely damaged by a truck bomb explosion. Mike's office caught fire, destroying all of his PhD data and thesis manuscripts along with many of his belongings.

Having a close relative working through her PhD in physics, I know the work involved, and having all one's data burned by a truck-bomb explosion is both severely debilitating to his years of effort - and in this case, absolutely absurd.

Mind you, these were the days before computers, and of course, before computer or cloud storage. All his computations would have been on paper, like some medieval monk spending 4 years writing a manuscript.

[SunkenCiv]

Definitely. And woke is a lot older than most seem to think.