My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

H5N1 is causing a massive epidemic of lethal avian influenza.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.