A lot of geeks seem to live a long time. One of the last of the Manhattan Project guys, Abraham Zarem, died a couple weeks ago at 106!
[snip] Engineers like him gathered in secret laboratories in New Mexico, California, New York City and elsewhere to provide the practical know-how the theorists lacked.
“’They were geniuses, but didn’t know how to build a [redacted] thing,’” Zarem recalled, according to his longtime rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, David Wolpe. [/snip]