Hoyt hoddle proposed a competition, a bakoff, if you will. Let us see who among us can build the finest weapon for burning things down. Feser probably should have won a nobel prize for his work on videman k but the war got in the way. His research assistant was his wife, the equally brilliant mary feezer. Women didn't get hired as chemistry professors in those days and together they wrote one of the definitive chemistry text books.
Basement laboratories. Mad scientists. Sticky gels, and a bake-off in the desert. The strange story behind Curtis LeMay’s weapon of choice. Part two.
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